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The Richmond Times Dispatch has outlined some of the crippling aspects of the misnamed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A doctors' group in western Henrico County has made a decision it hoped to avoid. The doctors say their social devotion to helping their community's most unfortunate residents has been trumped by dollars and sense. They have decided to stop participating in Medicaid, the health-care program for the needy funded by federal and state governments. Christine Talbot , practice administrator for Richmond Allergy and Asthma Specialists, recently met with the doctors. She told them: "I know philosophically you want to help, but basically, if you don't pull out of Medicaid, you guys are going to be holding the bag, and they're never going …
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Nancy, We Are Finding Out What Is In It, and It Sucks
Article written by: Martin M. McMartin
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