[DDTempest]

Originally Posted by Dirty Harry

Have you ever been to a primary care provider? Probably at least once to get your tiny little nutsac felt up for a physical. I don't know what the numbers are, but a vast majority of their patients are old people with medicare. I would go so far as to say at least 90% of them are covered by medicare. We are talking about a 35% cut in medicare reimbursements. This would be bad news for healthcare.

The uninsured of this country are young people who, typically, don't have insurance because they are healthy and don't need insurance. Therefore, they don't want to pay for insurance. The "influx" of new patients will not even make a dent in the 35% cut in reimbursements. Primary care physicians are already the lowest paid doctors in medicine. So much so, that medicare pays incentive payments to primary care physicians for providing quality healthcare. These providers are certainly not willing to absorb these cuts because of all the new patients they will be getting. That is bullshit.

We have a shortage of primary care physicians, an aging population, rising healthcare costs, and the solution is to cut provider reimbursements by 35% while at the same time applying healthcare coverage to the entire population? This is insane.

Oh I thought you were implying that its untrue, now you are just claiming "it sucks"