Massachusetts, I told you so. Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
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“Expanding coverage is easy compared to controlling healthcare costs,” said Nancy Turnbull, a Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector board member and associate dean at the Harvard School of Public Health. “Nobody has to give much up to expand coverage, but in controlling cost there will always be losers.”
I nonminate this one for Keen Grasp of the Obvious (too late) Award of THe Day.
This from the Mecca of medicine.
Kevin,
You touted Mass. as a model of reform. Why are you saying “I told you so?”
I commented on this earlier:
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/paying-to-remain-uninsured.html
The concept of individual mandates is fine by me, and infinitely better than single-payer options.
Doing so without expanding physician access and infusing primary care with the appropriate resources is not, and doomed to failure.
Kevin
Does anybody have any doubt where this is going?
I smell a 25% paycut to doctors in Massachusetts coming soon.
I hope those liberal fools at Harvard Medical School enjoy that!
The liberal fools at Harvard have engineered all sorts of ways to avoid the pay cut that will be imposed on the private docs.
Doing so without expanding physician access and infusing primary care with the appropriate resources is not, and doomed to failure.
Kevin”
In other words – pay us more. But where, pray tell, does all this additional money you want come from?
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