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To: Bilow who wrote (703233)	3/8/2013 2:39:16 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) of 1576643

"He said that he didn't like having to see an excessively large number of patients. I don't know if this is related to medicare; my guess is it isn't." Insurance companies set the time a doctor can spend with any one patient. Ask your doctor. The Doctor Will See You-If You're Quick thedailybeast.com "At least part of the blame began with the managed-care revolution of the 1980s and ’90s, an initially well-meaning effort intended to improve the quality of medicine and control costs, but which ended up fracturing the doctor-patient bond. Many insurers focused more on cost at the expense of quality. They negotiated lower and lower fees for doctors, who slashed the time spent with patients to fit more of them into a day. Despite the accelerated schedule, this has meant a decline in income for most physicians over the last decades, with primary-care doctors hit hardest. A 2006 report found that inflation-adjusted incomes for all doctors decreased by 7 percent from 1995 to 2003, and by 10 percent for primary-care physicians."

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