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

To: Lane3 who wrote (18534)	7/27/2010 10:40:28 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Medicare .... her husband got in just under the wire--he was the very last Unbelievable... Medicare is going the way of Medicaid. Apparently it's no longer possible to survive in practice on Medicare fees. What's next? Tie state license to the doc's agreeing to take Medicare? One young person, a college student, actually told me a few days ago that she had doubts about going into medicine - because by the time she would be ready to practice she could find herself having no choice but to work for the government, from paycheck to paycheck. For almost 20 years I was a member of the Medical Board of a hospital. On very many occasions, over the years, we had to stand up to the administration and other bosses, and insist that things would be done the way we wanted them done, in the best interests of the patients. One of (relatively) intangible effects of doctors losing independence is that they may have to... kiss up to bosses - more than ever in the past. As an employee, the Doc loses much of his ability to be a patient's advocate. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I consider this to be a very big loss - and potentially, very corrupting for everyone involved. end of rant... trying to cover too much ground in one post... :)