ObamaCare: Doctors refusing new Medicare patients because of low government reimbursement setting a new high

Doctors are already getting screwed with all the red tape to get any money back from government social programs. Because of ObamaCare which took out $500 billion from Medicare over the next 10 years, doctors are now turning away new Medicare patients. From USA Today via memeorandum:

The number of doctors refusing new Medicare patients because of low government payment rates is setting a new high, just six months before millions of Baby Boomers begin enrolling in the government health care program.

Recent surveys by national and state medical societies have found more doctors limiting Medicare patients, partly because Congress has failed to stop an automatic 21% cut in payments that doctors already regard as too low.

That part was, after all, part and parcel of ObamaCare. Where was USA Today on the possibility of this consequence months ago? Even before the cut, Medicare paid doctors on average 78% of what private insurers paid in 2008. Thus, physicians simply cannot subsidize Medicare by increasing rates on their other patients. Which brings up an interesting point that was wholly ignored by liberals in the run up to ram ObamaCare through - how much of the cost increases in healthcare is due to government not reimbursing doctors who in turn have to raise costs on everyone else? Most ironically in the USA Today piece is this regarding the AARP:

The AARP, the nation's largest consumer group representing seniors, is taking notice. Some U.S. areas already face a shortage of primary care physicians.

The AARP supported ObamaCare so they could stuff their coffers with money from seniors purchasing supplemental insurance that AARP sells. The AARP is no longer the organization it was once was. It is now just another appendage of the liberal movement. Like the NOW and its attacking Sarah Paling, and the NAACP attacking Clarence Thomas, AARP no longer complies with its stated purpose. Should this health care boondoggle pass, no group will be more negatively affected than seniors. Yet here is the AARP snubbing their own membership to help push this through anyway. In fact, here's a video I posted before of AARP leadership walking out of a meeting when the membership brought up health care: (Video: AARP walks out on its own members when questions about health care legislation are brought up!)