The idiots who designed “Obamacare” run into yet another program-killing, and potentially Administration-killing, problem. Now blue-state Californians face an interesting conundrum: Whom do you trust: your longtime family doctor, or Barack Obama? When a federal program impacts at the local level like that, even the bluest of the blue think local. It may be the people responsible for actually providing the care who deal the death blow to “Obamacare.”
“It may be the people responsible for actually providing the care who deal the death blow to “Obamacare.”
Optimistic, IMHO.
I believe you/we will see small neighborhood clinics opening up for routine treatment(s) a la Mexico. And frankly, I don’t have any big problem with that, as one component of a cost control schema. If they were staffed with one MD and a few RNs or PAs, that would in my mind constitute a valid approach to cost cutting.
Whereas the present system ratifies the insane rake the insurance companies make from the transfer of monies. Which is why it will ultimately fail...but it will produce devastating results on the way to failure. I sympathize with the doctors. My Mom used a fair amount of HC in her final year and the compensation rates ranged from 10% to 50% of what was billed.