When I moved my office two blocks down the street in Liberal in April I thought it would be easy to update my address with all the necessary groups I deal with. My medical license needed updating and that took a one page fax to the Kansas Board of Healing Arts. The same with my Oklahoma license and my Ontario medical license. Credit cards were also easily updated online. My DEA certificate only needed two pages faxed to St. Louis to update my address.
BUT to change my address with Medicare, the current government-run health care system for seniors, took a 45 PAGE form!. I had to refile my original application to become a Medicare provider just to change my office address. That turned out to be a journey in frustration for days on end as Medicare kept sending the form back for changes before they finally accepted it. My point is to wonder if this is how efficient Obama's government-run health care system is going to be, will it be really cost-effective?? The price tag is 1.5 trillion dollars over ten years. How much of that will be wasted on inefficient administrative matters? Or, if it took 45 pages to register my change of address with Medicare for moving two blocks, how many pages would it take to move a city and register the change of address (tongue in cheek grin) ?
drBob
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