Admitting patients, medicaid or not, is a decision that should be left to DOCTORS, now lawyers. I don’t know of a single doctor in a clinic, ER, or anywhere else who looks at a patient’s insurance in deciding whether to admit or not. That’s the problem with medicine today – a refusal by the public to accept an asymmetry of information.

Illinois’ Attorney General filed a lawsuit against two of the state’s larger clinics, accusing them of conspiring to prevent admittance of new Medicaid patients in hopes of driving up reimbursements.

I’ve yet to hear a single member of the “under-educated, over-entitled public” support that lawsuit. All letters to the editor in our paper have fairly bluntly told the state to bug off.

You might have a better chance of reaching some of your objectives if you’d try to enlist public support rather than constantly insult them.

I am with you on mid-level providers.
Only lamenting this fact, and my frustration over the doctors who are ahead of me…that fascilitated the training, entry and progress of the mid-level movement. Are you with the all inclusive ACP? Hopefully, you have never, ever participated in flourishing mid-level careers, and has no NP/PA or PhD RN/PA in your practice.

“providers” is what you will get: next time you need an ER (or a primary care “provider” for that matter) you will likely see a PA or NP.

maybe that doesn’t matter to you, but I certainly would rather be treated by someone with the full breadth of scientific training & experience to treat a human being.

RESIDENCY – THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE.

Clients not patients
Providers not doctors

Are these not what MBAs teach and foist on everyone? No wonder inflation hits the industry so well…

I guess there is just no limit to the band-aid kind of solutions to today’s health care crises.

Policy makers will listen to the 300-lb medicaid patient with a cold who bitches about his 5-hr wait in the ER, before the primary care doctors who say they won’t take medicaid (or hip, ghi, aetna, bc/bs, and soon medicare) because of low reimbursement.

medicine (and ER especially) are headed for a major disaster. i feel sorry for young ER docs now – they have a valuable skill that is being dumbed down to appease an under-educated and over-entitled public.