It’s funny how doctors are staunchly opposed to health care reform that involves a government-run health insurance program – until someone proposes to cut an existing socialized health program that serves as a trough for physicians.
Recently, the American Medical Association has been critical of President Barack Obama’s efforts to reform health care by offering a government-sponsored option for health insurance. Now, this week the Michigan State Medical Society is up in arms about a reported proposal in the Senate to cut the state’s Medicaid reimbursements to physicians by 8 percent, slashing $200 million to reduce a $1.8 billion shortfall in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, Gongwer News Service reported.
Society official say the cuts will make it harder for doctors to treat the poor, forcing more indigent persons to go to emergency rooms for treatment.
Not to mention run a scalpel through their profit margins.
Abolish EMTALA.
Major cost to healthcare system has been removed.
Posted by: MCP-001 | June 17, 2009 at 12:14 PM
I have a rheumatologist who is staunchly behind a single payer system. He truly believes that is the best way to have true health care in this country.
You would think, being a specialist who charges a little more than the average doctor, that he may not be, but he rails about it each time I go for a visit. He also has primarily elderly patients, given the nature of his specialty, and, I would imagine receives much of his payments through Medicare, so he must know what he's talking about. It hasn't scared him off.
Posted by: brynb2 | June 18, 2009 at 12:44 PM