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“Obama had said I could keep my doctor. Now they’re doing away with my doctor. They kicked him out!” [Darleen Click]

ObamaCare’s gutting of Medicare Advantage marches on Elderly New Yorkers are in a panic after getting notices that insurance companies are booting their doctors from the Medicare Advantage program as a result of the shifting medical landscape under ObamaCare. That leaves patients with unenviable choices: keep the same insurance plan and find another doctor, pay out of pocket or look for another plan where their physician is a member. New

“Doctors Already Make More Than Enough Money” [Darleen Click]

Journalist Margot Sanger-Katz just says Shut-up It’s not like physicians can’t get a haircut. Doctors recently absorbed a 2 percent pay reduction, their first in a decade, when the sequester kicked in. Industry consultants have seen few major ripple effects. “There are a lot of scare tactics going on,” says Martin Gaynor, a health economist at Carnegie-Mellon University. Gaynor doesn’t endorse the big, all-at-once hit that would ensue if Congress