Posted on 11/03/2025 10:56:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Add to that decreasing reimbursements and increasing costs. Medicare physician payments have fallen 33% since 2001 after adjusting for inflation, while practice expenses have risen 59% during the same period.
Insurers set payment rates that barely cover overhead, while inflation, staffing shortages, and mandatory technology upgrades push expenses higher. Independent physicians, those who still see medicine as a calling rather than a corporate job, are selling out to hospitals.
According to the AMA, “The share of physicians working in private practices in 2024 was 42.2 percent, a decline of 18 percentage points from 60.1 percent in 2012.” In other words, less than half of doctors remain in private practice.
Exactly why my brother quit.
Reason #572 why we MUST NUKE UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL GOV’T “HEATHCARE” AKA DEATH PROTOCOL!!!!!!
But we’ll always have plastic surgeons.
AI doctors will fix this
Imagine how much more time the doctors would have with less illegals and less Obamacare paperwork.
Medicine is an assembly line and doctors paint by the numbers.
One of the BIGGEST factors is the number of female Doctors being trained! On average, female doctors quit working full time within 7 years of graduation.
Our entire medical establishment is socialist e.g. fixed prices, mediocre care for all, the built-in assumption that ‘insurance’ will pick up the tab, etc. Once America gets back to its roots and private sector medicine is allowed to thrive, like Walmart getting into the biz for example, prices will plummet and quality will rise as a natural consequence of free-market enterprise. And that said, Obamacare needs to be repealed in Congress, not replaced, just repealed.
My daughter told me she saw 26 patients in a ten hour shift. Then had to do charting on the weekend to catch up. I don’t know how much longer she’ll be willing to do that job.
Top-heavy with parasitic paper-pushers, lean in physicians.
I had a medical exam today by the sketchiest doctor I could find. It was a DOT physical which I need for my job.
He has two clinics. One is in a truck stop.
Two employees help with admin. Cash or credit card only. $85. Pay in advance of exam. Besides staff and building his only expense is a plastic cup for a urine test.
He actually seems to be a good guy. I’ve had several exams done by him. He’s got the right idea. Skip anything having to do with insurance. Cash only. Minimal drama.
And he had a very nice new Porsche in the parking lot.
All that overhead is to support the health insurance bureaucracy. Get rid of health insurance and 90% of it goes away.
Software is for data entry for billing purposes. Terrible at helping nurses or physicians in their jobs.
Outrageous costs of frilly equipment and disposables. Someone getting huge kickbacks to keep this all going.
No real market to drive prices down. Hospitals disobey new laws to publish prices.Hospitals, Pharma, Insurers, corrupt Gov. officials: All are in on keeping the system inflated as it is. Very corrupt.
The EMRs regs in GWB’s first Porkulus were designed to drive the independent doctor out of his/her practice and into health systems.
If we want better healthcare, we need to change laws and regs to make it worthwhile for medical practioners who want to go independent to do so.
I’m tired of seeing HCPs whose first concern is pleasing the outfit signing their paychecks.
Although not quite as extreme a similar chart could be made for classroom teachers and administrators/other school employees.
The students that chose to become a doctor after Obama care is different than those before. The prior doctors who choose this career are not staying in it as long. People thought they could change the system and have the same doctors. It doesn’t happen that way.
True this, and also weasel attorneys and their weasel confederates in state legislatures and the congress.
Docs live in constant fear of getting sued for faked injuries.
This is why when college kids are rioting with their muzzie terrorist pals, they are getting degrees in “How To Live Happy”, Beyonce and Tater Swuft money counting methods.
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