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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (36282)4/29/2014 7:17:31 PM
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A survey I just saw says the majority of docs , about 65% I think, plan to take the same number or add new medicaid and medicare patients....

I don't think you read that carefully. So, 35% (100 - 65) will reduce the number of Medicaid and Medicare patients they treat. The rest will either support the same number they already have or add a few more. How does that support your argument?

As for squeezing in more patients, doctors and patients are both already complaining that visits have gotten too short due to the pressures of low reimbursement and quality has dropped. I doubt either the doctors or their extant patients want to reduce quality further. As for cost, there are lots of costs per patient, not per hour. Squeezing in five more patients means someone has to fill out five more sets of paperwork. Staff do that. Doctors have to add consultations with other doctors to their fixed costs as well as any research required for each new patient's problems. Those are all outside the cost of operating an office for a given set of minutes.
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