“the program is poised to make deep cuts in payments to many doctors”
You pretend to pay me and I pretend to server you
In some states like Colorado, higher payments to Medicaid providers remain in effect.
Basically, the federal government is paying doctors less than the cost of a plumber call - just for seeing their patients.
Obamacare has expanded the rolls of poor and working class people getting medical coverage - but what it has given with one hand it has taken away with the other hand.
“You pretend to pay me and I pretend to server you”
Great line. Just like the old joke about Soviet agriculture
One of my tenants worked for a doctor who specializes in Medicaid/ medicare patients. She said that last year they were seeing anywhere from 36 to 45 patients during the morning office visits. That works out to about 5 minutes per patient. In the afternoon and evening he would be busy at the hospital performing operations.