Tuesday, October 20, 2009

How are the Docs affected

As early as July this year, President Obama narrowed the healthcare system to four components consisting of: Doctors, Insurance Companies, Hospitals and Patients.
For the past couple of months now, it looks like the only group that is not comfortable with the on going reform draft bill is the Insurance companies. There has been consistent lobbying from the Insurance companies to block the passage of the current bill because it contains the so called “public option.” The insurance companies feel the public option will compete extensive with their business and will cut into their profit margins in the future.
What I am wondering then is: “where are the doctors?” From what I understand, the current reform bill is about two thousand pages and I feel that a lot must have been written about the doctors, hospitals and insurance companies. The doctors and hospitals need to speak up and they must be heard. Placing the spotlight on the insurance companies alone gives me concern.
While looking through the Physicians’ website, medical physicians will be rewarded for being good doctors. What this means is that the government and different private programs can reward doctors for providing high quality healthcare at lower costs. This would give doctors a better reason to provide more care to patients.
Also, hospitals were agreeing to cut about $150 - $170 billion over a decade in administrative cost so as to support the healthcare reform plan. The plan will in return have millions of uninsured patients to buy insurance which would allow for more patients to get the help they need.
It seems that the government is providing a way for doctors and hospitals to be rewarded for just supporting health care reform.

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