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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (6878)	6/5/2009 12:20:07 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 42652

There are already local adjustments in Medicare fees to account for regional pricing. If you start doing too much social engineering the quality of health care is going to suffer. We don't need the government telling physicians where to live. All true. But I wouldn't dismiss the idea out of hand. If Docs will get paid better in underserved areas, maybe that would "sweeten the medicine". As far as I know, right now the incentives work the other way around - the Doc would get paid better in Manhattan than in Pine Bluff. Maybe just having a more even playing field could help... the built in incentive would be the difference between the costs of living.