These now repetitive "doctors are suffering" propaganda pieces are strangely biased works of the AMA no doubt, since there is virtually no doctor who doesn't and didn't benefit from state and federal financial aid, and in some rural places local financial aid.
Existing government programs already reimburse physicians at rates that are often less than the actual cost of treating a patient. Estimates suggest that on average physicians are reimbursed at roughly 78% of costs under Medicare, and just 70% of costs under Medicaid. Physicians must either make up for this shortfall by shifting costs to those patients with insurance — meaning those of us with insurance pay more — or treat patients at a loss.
As a result, more and more physicians are choosing to opt-out of the system altogether. Roughly 13% of physicians will not accept Medicare patients today. Another 17% limit the number of Medicare patients they will see, a figure that rises to 31% among primary care physicians. The story is even worse in Medicaid, where as many as a third of doctors will not participate in the program.
Doctors who take aid or loans (look into where loans come from) should be forced to take aid patients or pay off their own financial aid, immediately. Medical students and pre-medical students leeching off the government isn't a one way street. That's fascism. We educate them so their families didn't have to, and then they refuse to treat the poor and cause a crisis ?
You don't actually think they pay for their hundreds of thousands of dollars in education, do you ? You don't think their parents saved for them to go to medical school when no one saves for college ?
Rule one is go where you can afford to go. We saved. I couldn't transfer to Yale when told to, or start out at Philips Andover or even Kingswood Oxford in Connecticut.
Then these Bilderberg Nazis maimed me through Merck.
These whiners receive school aid, living expense aid, job transfer aid, and work at state and federally funded hospitals and grant funded jobs. They receive their internships at the same.
Traditionally, most doctors have been willing to take some Medicare patients either out of altruism or as a “loss leader,” to reach other family members outside the Medicare program. Others try to get around Medicare’s low reimbursement rates by unbundling services or providing care not covered through the program. (Nearly 85% of seniors carry supplemental policies to cover these additional services). With many office and equipment costs fixed, even a low reimbursement patient may be better than no patient at all for some doctors. This is even more true for hospitals where Medicare patients may account for the majority of people they serve. And doctors can take some comfort in the fact that Medicare is pretty much guaranteed to pay and pay promptly. The same is not always true of private insurance.
Many thousands do not complain, at least to the public's face.
The rest are welcome to pay their loans in full on Monday morning and what they cost the taxpayer that they often maim, as wholly controlled government assets.
Stores discount merchandise to 70 percent of full cost all the time and unlike doctors, they receive no taxpayer handouts in this manner.
Stop trying to con an unwitting public and if that proves impossible, pay off your school loans.
A 2010 IBD/TPP Poll found that 45% of doctors would at least consider leaving their practices or taking early retirement as a result of the new health care law. And, an online survey by Sermo.com, a sort of Facebook for physicians, found that 26% of physicians in solo practices were considering closing. Of course, not every doctor who told these polls that he or she would consider leaving the field will actually do so. But if even a small portion depart, our access to medical care will suffer.
This is staged propaganda ordered to the membership by the home office. It's repeated in every article like this. What are they going to do, instead ?
In fact, we have already seen the start of this process in Massachusetts, where Mitt Romney’s health care reforms were nearly identical to President Obama’s. Romney’s reforms increased the demand for health care but did nothing to expand the supply of physicians. In fact, by cracking down on insurance premiums, Massachusetts pushed insurers to reduce their payments to providers, making it less worthwhile for doctors to expand their practices. As a result, the average wait to get an appointment with a doctor grew from 33 days to over 55 days.
Start teaching students what they need to learn instead of arcane hazing rituals not used in foreign countries this country then solicits extra doctors from. The day scientists don't have a computer in front of them, medical care isn't going to be anyone's primary worry. Start by dumping insane math requirements that obliterate otherwise intelligent people who score high in the concepts but aren't going to waste their life being hazed in calculus as if it's 1776.
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