Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Health woes

A recent CNN article cited a survey that suggested that, due to the new 21% reimbursement cut, over 60% of physicians are planning on reducing their Medicare patient population, if not eliminating it entirely. Another article suggested that as many as 10-15% of general practitioners are planning on leaving the profession. Considering these figures, how is it that the government assumes that a national health care plan will fix our current crisis? With a significant majority of physicians already avoiding government-sponsored health-care plans and a growing number of physicians leaving the field entirely, who will provide the care for the millions of newly insured Americans?

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