Healthcare Reform has passed but it will be a long time before the experts figure out the many ways that physicians will be affected. Predictions are that taxes and premiums will increase, doctors will be forced to consolidate and the health care system will become two tiered. Here is our summary of the “first wave” of opinions that are coming from our contact with physicians and with key experts in the field.
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Many observers of the healthcare reform debate have been under the impression that the government and insurance carriers were on opposing sides. Not so! When it was all said and done, the insurance carriers in America and the United States government have joined forces to become the largest insurer of healthcare in the history of the world. The insurance carriers got thirty million new subscribers as their part of the deal and the Democrats got their wish of universal coverage and regulatory control over the insurance carriers. As one commentator described, “ the insurance carriers really are now claim processors for the government. They are virtually guaranteed to make a profit and all they have to do is play by the rules that the government sets up.”
Everything seems to be going against physicians these days. Reimbursements are declining, most expect healthcare reform to hurt doctors more than help them. Doctors lives are increasingly controlled by managed care “specialists”; even worse, the public perception of the integrity of physicians is declining. What should you do, roll over and cash it in. Not so fast….change can be your friend, your best opportunity to move in a new direction.
The temporary course to freeze the scheduled 21% medicare reduction was blocked by Republican Sen. Jim Bunning of KY. Bunning claims the fix in the bill would add to the national debt.
Physicians and patients alike are outraged. This new cut will devastate the physician community and put disabled and elderly patients at risk of losing care.
So what is it going to be? Are you going to continue to accept medicare? Can you afford to accept a 21% pay cut?
Some or all information contained above compliments of Desiree Baylin at www.POMAA.net
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