And MedSckool has a very thorough analysis of the insanity…
1. An individual mandate, with exemptions if premiums are more than 5% of family income
2. Tax subsidies to families <400%>
3. Expansion of Medicaid (including to young adults <250%>
4. Employer pay or play mandate (tax of up to 6.5% on wages if employer doesn’t provide insurance as a benefit)
5. Hospital tax of up to 4% of revenues
6. New cigarette tax of at least $1.50/pack
7. State fund (employer pay + hospital taxes + cig taxes) to fund indigent who cannot afford care
8. Insurance requirement that 85% of premiums go to patient care
9. Kills experience rating and doesn’t allow insurers to refuse coverage because of a pre-existing condition
10. Increase in Medicaid reimbursement, potentially up to Medicare fee schedule
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What happened to the tax on physicians, did this finally get killed off?
To anonymous-
Is that why you went into medicine? To squirrel enough money away to retire? That’s what Hedge Fund managers do for a living. Aren’t you a physician?
As is evident in the daily news, people of this country feel that their health care is failing them. Every candidate is talking about health care because it is an important issue to people.
To shrug it off as “not from my pocket” is to be out of touch with what’s happening here. This attitude is exactly what voters and politicians will make physicians pay for as they expect more from their physicians.
Uhh… On what planet is mandating that people buy insurance from a private market “socialized?” There are reasonable reasons to object to the California plan, but that description is just silly.
Great summary of the California legislation. Good to hear that the 2% tax on physicians was left out. I don’t mind the cigarrette tax.
Holier than thou preaching from a dermatologist? That’s rich.
Coul;dn’t make it through the day witout the obigatory self-righteous tongue lahsing from a bleeding heart.
DermDoc, since you’re particular specialty is known worldwide for it’s altruism (not to mention it’s status as a critical cog in the wheel of this nation’s health engine), you won’t mind when the Governator and his ilk levy a special tax on you and your kind to finance his notions of universal health care for the more worthy?
After all it’s just money, and as you imply YOU’D be the last person on this earth to want MONEY for his sweat and labor.
Fly on the wall in the dermatologist office.
Hey DermDr, can you pick up line 1? It’s a middle-aged lady with five hundred bucks who wants Botox. Can you get her in this afternoon before she finds another dermatologist?
Oh, what’s on line 2? A family doc calling about an old lady with Medicare. She’s got this black knobby thing on her shoulder. It’s bleeding and growing. I was gonna put him on hold for an hour and then hang up. You know how I like that.
Oh, what’s that? You’ve got a charity slot in two months? OK, she’s on. We’ve got the press scheduled to cover your annual Medicare appointment. It’s a press tie-in to your spring publicity run.
Derm Doc can always hire a PA to deal with the Medicare-using patients in his practice, and juice their service charge with biopsy of the ever-important three suspicious lesions at every visit.
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