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

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (25565)	4/4/2013 3:37:46 PM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 42652

The Post story noted that the health care law itself encourages the creation of nurse-run practices by requiring insurers to pay nurses the same rates they pay doctors for the same services, starting next year Already? So what was the point of getting rid of the primary care docs? Relative equality of fees makes sense - since the cost structure of practices ran by nurses will be similar. Just wondering -- do they have in Canada and in Europe independently practicing nurses, or are WE going to be the trailblazers? I tried to find the answer on the Net, but the story seems mixed.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (25565)	4/5/2013 1:04:34 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>> The Post story noted that the health care law itself encourages the creation of nurse-run practices by requiring insurers to pay nurses the same rates they pay doctors for the same services, starting next year. Medicare, however, will still reimburse nurses at 85 percent of the doctors’ rate. This is absurd. Why in the world would you pay an unsupervised NP the same as an M.D.? That's nuts. Of course, Medicare, the government payer, is exempted.