Posted on 12/01/2012 8:53:04 AM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
You clearly have never run a business. Do you understand the concept of overhead?
They all need to stop accepting Medicare.
The AARP endorsed this crap, I hope its members figure out they have been sold out soon.
This is a global fee. It includes preoperative workup, the procedure and postoperative care for 90 days. Can easily entail five hours of physician work. Now you’re down to $100 an hour, out of which must come overhead, typically at least 50%. Now you’re down to 50/hr or less. Try getting that rate from a lawyer or even a mechanic. Try to convince a bright young student to take on a few hundred k in debt and at least 11 years of training for that.
I was being sarcastic but there is some validity to my point. The current system is financially unsustainable now and in the future. There is simply not enough tax revenue to support current payment levels. Rationing may be inevitable, but I would rather see market forces decide the issue rather than the government. Of course there are no free markets in health care but that is another thread.
I take it from your screen name that your are or were a physician in the military, and for that I thank you for your service.
If you are calling Ms. Pelosi a ditz, you are insulting DITZes!!
She looks like she fell off a cliff with Wile E. Coyote's ACME Anvil hitting her face.
And who pays for the instrumentation, the medical facility,the drugs and anesthesia, the nurse practitioner, the scheduler, the billing clerk, the malpractice insurance, and on and on??
I think if a doctor refuses to see medicare patients , the Feds will make sure this doctor doesn’t get a license to practice in that state. The Feds will be issuing licenses soon, not the state.
Just you wait and see as Rush always says.
They don’t want to fund the great society healthcare programs, they have been raiding them. So IMO they are going to order them to work for far less or they will give them a salary and that will be the end of it.
Two posts too late, they already did in number ten.
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