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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: skinowski who wrote (7131)	6/20/2009 11:14:36 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 42652

Here's the primary care conundrum. 173K is good money, of course, but "average" means that very many struggle and make much less - while working and taking calls 24/7. No wonder that only 2% of med students want to have a career in primary care. It truly is; how can a person justify the massive time, effort, money to attend the best schools in the land, come out the other side with massive school loans -- and anticipate earning 173K? You have to be very committed to being a FP doc to do this. Yet, I saw a physician on the news yesterday talking about how he was adequately paid by Medicare, he held up his 1099 showing something like 160K (gross) revenue from Medicare and said he thought it was enough. What occurred to me was he was a man who had no idea what is going on financially with his medical practice. Probably loves taking care of patients, hates dealing with the money aspects of it, and has no idea how much money it costs him to have a Medicare patient versus a privately insured one. And the writing is on the wall -- reimbursements from government programs, if they get their way, are going to take a hit.

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