Insurance costs have been going up by double digits for years, yet doctor reimbursement rates don’t even keep up with inflation. Something doesn’t meet the smell test here.
From everything I’ve read, doctors lose money on Medicaid and Medicare, and have to wait months and months to get whatever the government decides to pay. Maybe they have to charge higher fees to everyone else to make up what they lose treating patients for the government.
Maybe because they work in nice offices as opposed to banana shacks or alleys?
Blame it on Bush?
Wanna bet costs drop significantly?
They will be very happy ...as all that money will be available for them to play with in their bureaucracy. Basically ObamaCare works out to be a jobs program for DC bureaucrats
Just remember, for every doctor who qualified out of medical school with an “A” or “B” average grades, there are several who just got in under the line and barely made it, but yet as lousy as they are, are still called doctors. If the “good” ones quit, we are left with the ones that do not know their right from their left hand and you will pay for it in the long run.
Yeah right. My good friend and back surgeon pays more than $250,000 per year for his medical malpractice insurance, although he has never had a claim. Think of that $1,000 every working day before you have seen your first patient. I’m sure countries with socialized medicine disallow tort claims against their government doctors. The only small ray of sunshine that socialized medicine is that it would bring mass bankruptcies of personal injury lawyers.
I’d sooner believe this study if it was conducted by Cuda’s health ministry and published by The Star Weekly.
Would YOU want to be operated on by a doctor who qualified for food stamps?
People come here from around the world to get the best care.
But the purpose of Obamacare is not health care.
The purpose is to kill off all the old white people ASAP to accelerate their replacement by illegals.
They will work hard to ultimately implement a comprehensive 'lifelong employment preparation program’ (LEPP) at the federal level which will include, but not be limited to:
1) Mandatory ‘aptitude’ tests for all children at various stages of their state-run primary and secondary education/indoctrination.
2) .Secondary school which assigns each student a required course of study based on results of primary-level aptitude tests.
3) ‘Free’ mandatory college education or vocational/technical training, with courses of study dictated for each individual, based on results of secondary-level aptitude tests.
4) State-mandated professions/fields of employment for all. No one will be allowed to seek or accept employment in any area outside their state-mandated profession/trade.
Does that sound about right?
Hey you stupid doctors who voted for and support der Fuehrer. You’ve been tagged by democrats as the cause of all their supposed woes with our health care system. Hope you all like the idea of being government employees, being told what to practice and when and where you will practice and how you will practice medicine. Morons.
American bureaucrats and college professors are more highly paid in the U.S. than their counterparts overseas, too. Pay cuts for these people need to be on the table!
Notice they don’t factor in the cost of Malpractice ins.
Are the Taxpayers going to pick up the premiums for this ins. If not Docs will just stop accepting new patients.
The authors had better be careful what they wish for. As doctors fees go down, older physicians will have a greater incentive to leave the profession. The physician population is already old; 40% of physicians are obver 55 years old. Numerous surveys have indicated that many physicians will leave the profession if 0bamacare is implementated. Because it takes 4 years of med school and 4-8 years of residency to train a physician (depending on speciality), medical schools will not be able to make up the shorfall any time soon. Meanwhile some 30 millions uninsured are expected to be newly covered under obamacare. It doesn’t take a genius to see that access and quality will be drastically reduced.
Let’s see..who exactly is telling us ALL ABOUT the evils of medicine in the USA? Professors of nothing worth knowing. Politicians. Bureaucrats seeking to justify their salaries. Armies of lawyers defending their “Awards”. Union Officials. Truck drivers. And millions of people not qualified to put a band-aid on a boo-boo.
Have any ACTUAL DOCTORS, those with REAL, LIVE patients posted their opinions.
When I have a medical issue, I want to see a doctor, not some know-nothing who can accomplish nothing.
So what do they earn after taxes, and more importantly, after having paid their enormous malpractice insurance fees to protect against greedy trial lawyers and their scamming clients?
They lost me at “a survey conducted by two Columbia professors”. Nuff said.