It’s primary day in New Hampshire! Jacob Goldstein of the excellent WSJ Health Blog asks me a few questions about what I think of the race.
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and it’s going to be so nice to answer the phone without looking at caller id.
Obama is the least off the wall and totalitarian of the 3 leading democrats on health care issues, but still not to be trusted one iota, IMHO.
There is endless biased media hype against the free market. However solutions for health care issues will come from the market economy. The successful future of healthcare is WalMart, high technology, Concierge Practice and Medical Savings Accounts. Not Cuba, OHIP, Michael Moore, or HillaryCare.
Ed Sodaro MD
Kevin, you need to get over your issue that circumcisions are over-reimbursed. Many Medicaid plans do not pay for neonatal circumcisions at all. When circumcisions are done on adults for phimosis, chordee, recurrant balanitis, etc. they are a very delicate, plastic procedure that require significant expertice and skill. Medicare reimbursement is around $200.00 and there is a 3 month global(we cannot charge for any follow-up visits for 3 months). Also, circumcision is the most likely urological procedure that a urologist might get sued for(patients demand perfection). Most urologists prefer not to do them anymore.
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