Comments on: How to drive a doctor out of primary care http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/how-to-drive-doctor-out-of-primary-care.html medical blog Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:53:32 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/how-to-drive-doctor-out-of-primary-care.html/comment-page-1#comment-90435 Anonymous Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:18:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/how-to-drive-a-doctor-out-of-primary-care.html#comment-90435 ?? Independent practitioners? Around here they don't exist in primary care, because primary care loses money. I am an employed general internist in a rural area, I make (gross) about $70,000 a year, have over $100,000 in med school loans, and I spend 60% of my time doing paperwork demanded by for-profit insurance companies trying to minimize the care they will pay for so they can maximize profits. It is unsustainable. <br/><br/>I don't know where you are coming from, Dr. Parker, but it is a different world from mine! ?? Independent practitioners? Around here they don’t exist in primary care, because primary care loses money. I am an employed general internist in a rural area, I make (gross) about $70,000 a year, have over $100,000 in med school loans, and I spend 60% of my time doing paperwork demanded by for-profit insurance companies trying to minimize the care they will pay for so they can maximize profits. It is unsustainable.

I don’t know where you are coming from, Dr. Parker, but it is a different world from mine!

]]> By: Steve Parker, M.D. http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/how-to-drive-doctor-out-of-primary-care.html/comment-page-1#comment-89911 Steve Parker, M.D. Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/how-to-drive-a-doctor-out-of-primary-care.html#comment-89911 I just hope the Obamacrats don't criminalize these independent physician practices when they take over the health insurance and health care industries.<br/><br/>Many countries with socialized medicine outlaw independent practice, to force everyone into government-run care.<br/><br/>Misery loves company. I just hope the Obamacrats don’t criminalize these independent physician practices when they take over the health insurance and health care industries.

Many countries with socialized medicine outlaw independent practice, to force everyone into government-run care.

Misery loves company.

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