Kris Held is a doctor “on a mission to get government out of medicine.” Here’s part of her bio:
I have read The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), tweeted it and studied it. I will not implement, comply with it or let my patients live or die by it. Co-Founder AmericanDoctors4Truth.org
And she meant every word.
Here’s the letter she sent to Aetna when she discovered the insurer was “selling plans for which I am a provider-effectively selling my services without even asking, much less informing me that my services would be sold on such a site, under the auspices of new terms with which I will not comply.”
#Doctor sends letter to Aetna representative terminating contract. #ObamaCare #MustRead https://t.co/r6G0ShuVR1 pic.twitter.com/dUu49lMo1j
— BrokenACA (@BrokenACA) February 1, 2014
Since that image is small, here are a few excerpts from Dr. Held’s blog.
With a deep sense of sadness, I must inform you that I will no longer serve as a physician for Aetna patients under the terms of our contractual agreement, which you most recently unilaterally changed.
I have been privileged and honored to care for thousands of patients covered by Aetna policies since the 1990’s. I have devoted my life to providing the very best, state-of-the-art care to these individuals. We have formed a patient-doctor relationship, which I hope many will chose to continue in spite of my severing ties with Aetna. You see, health insurance has evolved such that insurers and government have inserted themselves smack-dab in the middle of the once sacred patient-doctor relationship. I am called a provider- not a doctor. My patient is now yours- not mine. What I can do as a physician now has strangulating strings and nonsensical numbers attached- to you and government and money-not the best interests of the patients.
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Obamacare, the “law of the land”, contains ever-changing-at-the-whim-of-HHS, politically-expedient mandates, rewards, penalties, rules and regulations with which I cannot rationally or morally treat my patients and run a practice, much-less interpret, implement, or comply.
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You must explain this to your patients. You must tell them that they have purchased a product that was misrepresented to them and that you cannot deliver. It saddens me to think of the decreased access to care from actual physicians and the shockingly increased costs Aetna patients will now experience because of your choice to collude with big government rather than collaborate with patients and physicians.
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Just sent this to Aetna.
Never dreamed this would be a chapter in my life in medicine.
Heart-aching. pic.twitter.com/YE1OCrGhVF— Kris Held,MD (@kksheld) January 30, 2014
Notification of Termination to Aetna http://t.co/ozf7edse44 Never dreamed this would be a chapter in my life in medicine. SoSad @AAPSonline
— Kris Held,MD (@kksheld) January 30, 2014
Here’s what happened when Held sent her letter.
Sent Termination notice-Aetna Rep said I'm contractually bound until 2/2015 but could try rewording letter.Really??? pic.twitter.com/b0zGhRDeOc
— Kris Held,MD (@kksheld) February 1, 2014
@kksheld how can you be contractually bound when Aetna changed the contract – without notice?
— Wingo is a Jedi name ?? (@mikepinkshoes) February 1, 2014
@mikepinkshoes That's what I said, but he said "too bad" I was-I could try rewriting parts of the letter.I'm getting a copy of the original.
— Kris Held,MD (@kksheld) February 1, 2014
@kksheld @mikepinkshoes Of course there is that " Pen and Phone" thing we got going on in the WH.
— Jane (@OrthoA) February 1, 2014
@OrthoA @mikepinkshoes pic.twitter.com/JWnWQ4et6T
— Kris Held,MD (@kksheld) February 1, 2014
@drscott_atlanta @SenTedCruz @EWErickson Not leaving medicine altogether, just the oppressive,anti-patient-doctor relationship arena.
— Kris Held,MD (@kksheld) February 1, 2014
Dr. Held is heartbroken, but she has plenty of support from those who understand the stranglehold Obamacare places on physicians and patients.
@kksheld You deserve the BIGGEST pat on the back from everyone who supports you Dr. Held. Exceptionally well done!
— bd560 (@bd560_1988) January 30, 2014
@kksheld what a fabulous letter! I am a physician in the same boat.I wish we had a group/ leader to represent us and our an end to maddness
— skatna (@aceg738) January 31, 2014
@kksheld Just awful. I feel for you, as I know you do for your patients. @AAPSonline
— Sheryl #rescue #loveofcountry (@sav01) January 30, 2014
@kksheld @GoodwinHH6 @AAPSonline Your pain and sadness is evident in your letter. Sorry that caring Doc's like you are treated like this
— Bent Not Broken!! (@PatrickArnold77) February 1, 2014
https://twitter.com/gopfashionista/status/429659533577707523
@gopfashionista @kksheld The harsh lessons on the difference between "coverage" and "care" are just beginning.
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) February 1, 2014
https://twitter.com/gopfashionista/status/429660729222787072
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