Posted on 08/13/2010 9:49:29 AM PDT by Nachum
AUSTIN – The federal health overhaul could dry up funds that the state's academic medical centers use to produce doctors in Texas, leaders of the University of Texas' six health science centers warned Wednesday.
The medical school presidents said they're not necessarily opposed to the sweeping legislation signed by President Barack Obama last spring, but they worry that their centers may absorb deep financial hits if they don't adapt to a changed marketplace and cut costs.
"We've got incredibly robust institutions, but they're inherently fragile," Daniel Podolsky, president of UT Southwestern Medical Center, told reporters after the presidents briefed UT regents about the new federal law.
Kirk Calhoun, president of the UT Health Science Center at Tyler, said that instead of describing the new law "as good or bad," he prefers to say it creates "a new normal." He said it will require medical schools and their teaching hospitals to be more nimble.
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They train people to make you sick and then you die.
when you try to control prices without mentioning supply and demand, you are going to have problems.
This is just going to end much worse than anyone (except us) thinks.
Personally, I'm glad med schools are more selective than law and engineering schools.
That makes as much sense as anything else you’ve said...which isn’t a lot!
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