futuremd
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This isn't about bedside manner, its about access to healthcare. Nothing you're saying even addresses this.Again, government is NOT a business and should not be profit seeking.
I own a practice and we don't take insurance, strictly cash based practice. We do not accept Medicare or Medicaid. We treat patients pro bono if it is indicated. We do surgeries on people who need it and get paid for it, we put people on a plan that enables them to pay the inflated costs of other physicians.
You say you are a "future MD", but you have no clue how economics and health care work. Because we do not go through third party payers, we have a more autonomous relationships with our patients and the community, we have better outcomes, and we offer very affordable rates of service, and our quality of care is second to none. I'm actually in the process of gathering statistics, and developing methods to use in a study with a few other clinicians on quality of care of patients who pay out of pocket versus through third party payers.
I can list my qualifications too. I'm listed on studies regarding EMR/EHR adoption rates and things like early-adoption pay-outs.
You're still proving my point though. Medicare/aid wasn't set out with the goal of trying to be run like a consulting firm. Its to aid the public. If you want to make money, go ahead and do so...I have my own perspective on the matter entirely, but the goal of the government isn't to be run like Kaiser Permanente.
In fact, the very notion that you prefer not to deal with patients who accept medicare/aid doesn't change the fact that the government provides those services for those that DO need them.
I have no problem with doc's making money. I have a problem with forgetting those who have NOTHING.
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