Medicare cuts will strengthen doctors’ negotiating position
Doctors will soon be wagging the reform dog.
Look at it this way. Expansion of insurance coverage to the 31 million more Americans, as envisioned in the current reform bill, will require more doctors to care for them. The starting entry of 78 million baby boomers in the Medicare pool, starting in 2011, will also take more doctors.
As everybody knows, coverage does not equal access. This is most vividly illustrated in …