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To: LindyBill who wrote (484331)4/24/2012 10:09:54 PM
From: skinowski  Read Replies (1) of 793790
 
>>> For one thing, current law would require a physician fee reduction of an estimated 30.9 percent on January 1, 2013. But this is, in Foster’s words, “an implausible expectation.” <<<<

They pass an idiotic law and than keep suspending its implementation, year after year.

Primary care docs get roughly 5% of the healthcare dollars. About half is spent on the overhead - employees, rents, etc. Cut them by 30%, and it will have to come out right out of their income - which will get chopped more than in half. Good luck with that. Will never happen.

Besides, this would comprise a huge ~1.6% savings in the total healthcare costs. You can cut 10 times more by retiring some healthcare bureaucrats, and no one will notice any difference.
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