What happens when you expand coverage without regard to costs. Like short-sighted Medicare, cutting payments to providers will be next:
Before long, they will start to employ the faulty economics of the Medicare National Bank and start cutting payments to physicians. That will only increase volume and program costs and decrease access in the long term. I’m waiting for the announcement at anytime.
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Kevin,
Didn’t you back the Mass. plan? Where did your assessment go wrong?
I love the smell of politicians grasping at straws in the morning.
All of the advocacy groups in the original boston.com article banded together to pass this monster and now they’re turning on each other like a pack of starving mongrels.
I’d laugh, but the only group not represented is physicians*. Any takers on how long it will take the rest of them to figure this out?
*Not a physician, but I work for a number who will be (and to some extent already have been) badly damaged by all of this.
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