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Catty. Chatty. And Occasionally Trashy.

Oct 02
Oh, this reminds me. What are we doing about health care?

Did we decide and I missed it? Medicare premiums will increase just 3% in 2008, but that's based on the assumption that health care providers are going to take a 10% cut in reimbursement. That's probably not going to happen. Even if it does, the number of providers that will accept Medicare is going to drop drastically.

Oh well, I can't think about that today. I'll go crazy if I do. I'll think about that tomorrow, after all...tomorrow is...another day.

PinkDome at 7:29 AM
 
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You had better think about it and go crazy. The government will not have to do away with Medicare. All it will have to do is keep lowering the reimbursement to physicians so enough stop accepting Medicare and then what happens? Collapse of Medicare?

And politicians are advocating a national health insurance program? What are they going to do for health care providers? Draft them? Depend on public health departments and charity hospitals to provide care?

P.S. As a Pediatrician, I was not involved in the Medicare mess. I'm viewing this as a soon-to-be Medicare patient, and a worried one at that.

The Doc at October 2, 2007 8:05 AM
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