Posted on 02/09/2012 8:26:34 AM PST by jurroppi1
Jane M. Orient, MD is an author, a practicing physician who maintains a solo practice of general internal medicine, a clinical lecturer at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, and the executive director at the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
Orient recently penned a piece titled "Shall We Take the Liberty of “the 1%”?," which highlights a number of pressures facing physicians. In a recent interview, MD+DI asked Orient about that article and how she expects healthcare reform legislation to impact physicians in the United States.
MD+DI: How do you feel healthcare reform will affect physicians' ability to practice medicine?
Orient: What is called “healthcare reform” is really a government takeover of medicine. Beginning with the health insurance industry, by requiring people to buy a government-dictated form of insurance with this promise that if you like your insurance plan, you can keep it. But if you read the first ten pages of the [Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act], it is apparent that the legislation makes it impossible for standard insurance plans to even exist.
The legislation imposes huge additional compliance costs on physicians. And, already physicians are subjected to price controls under Medicare. For many of them, they are hard-pressed to bring in enough revenue to cover even their costs much less to pay them for their work. So what many physicians are having to do is to think about changing their occupation or changing their practice in such a way that they can survive.
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Wow. There’s really not a lot of reason why anyone in their right mond would want to be a doctor anymore. Between $1,000,000 in student loans to pay off and government commisars micromanaging everything you do and how much income you can make I’m thinking the best and brightest people will find other professions.
right mond = right mind
Yeah, the good doctor brings up a lot of salient points! She discusses the new regulations and how all doctors will walk a thin line of always running afoul of the law for arbitrary reasons more often than not.
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