Stephanie
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oh well, Daddy Obama knows what's best for you
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Despite the predictions of fortune tellers in politics and think tanks, we wont know for years whether the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, will ultimately leave people sicker or healthier, richer or poorer.
Yet already the law, coming on top of previous legislation, is speeding the demise of an American small-business institution; the one-doctor medical practice.
Their problems began in the late 1990s. Government cost controls steadily eroded revenues while simultaneously boosting costs, by stacking on requirements for paperwork and accounting.
Some doctors adapted by figuring out ways to see more patients. Others just accepted falling incomes.
Now federal health care policy has delivered a major blow to productivity.
In a slow-motion version of the problems that crippled online insurance exchanges for months, doctors who see patients under Medicare and Medi-Cal programs have been forced by the phase-in of a 2009 federal "stimulus" law to install expensive, complex software systems that sharply reduce time for patients.
ALL of it here
Obamacare deals blow to one-doctor medicine | UTSanDiego.com
SNIP;
253
Comments
Despite the predictions of fortune tellers in politics and think tanks, we wont know for years whether the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, will ultimately leave people sicker or healthier, richer or poorer.
Yet already the law, coming on top of previous legislation, is speeding the demise of an American small-business institution; the one-doctor medical practice.
Their problems began in the late 1990s. Government cost controls steadily eroded revenues while simultaneously boosting costs, by stacking on requirements for paperwork and accounting.
Some doctors adapted by figuring out ways to see more patients. Others just accepted falling incomes.
Now federal health care policy has delivered a major blow to productivity.
In a slow-motion version of the problems that crippled online insurance exchanges for months, doctors who see patients under Medicare and Medi-Cal programs have been forced by the phase-in of a 2009 federal "stimulus" law to install expensive, complex software systems that sharply reduce time for patients.
ALL of it here
Obamacare deals blow to one-doctor medicine | UTSanDiego.com