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To: LindyBill who wrote (391583)	11/6/2010 9:35:16 AM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 794367

Say I am a pediatrician and I see 20 patients a day, including 6 well child visits. If an average insurance copay is now $20, the new law means I will be foregoing $120 per day or $28,800 per year. This is a substantial amount. You bet it is. Since the doc cannot pass on the loss to his landlord or to his employees or to anyone else, this comes out directly out of his income. And 30K is a big part of a Pediatrician's income. They were doing this crap with price fixing since the early 80's. They would chisel off every year a little here and a little there. By now, very few young docs can still hang out a shingle and become independent practitioners. They all need to be hired by someone - and in some way subsidized. I am now - as an employee - getting paid far more than I was able to earn in a well established practice, after 25 years. So, the money is STILL finding its way to doctors - except that now it has to travel through more hands - of various businesspeople and bureaucrats.... who are not serving as intermediaries for free, trust me. That's just one example of the efficiencies of quasi-socialism and price controls.

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