Local blogger, Jeff Sykes (unlike people like say, Roch Smith, Jr.), is actually chatting up healthcare providers (the other side of the equation in the patient-physician relationship) about the practicalities of expanding entitlement programs like Medicaid:
One thing I keep hearing goes like this: why do I want to continue seeing an increasing number of medicaid patients when the reimbursement is so low I can’t even cover my own overhead costs?
In addition, tort reform, malpractice insurance and a bloated administrative branch of the field are all cited as major barriers to health care providers being able to do their job at a price that makes their services affordable.
My response:
Jeff, none of the bleeding-heart, screaming meamies with their hands out want to hear it. They have no clue what it’s like to be a medical care provider - particulaly a primary care provider - in today’s corporatized, mega-entitled, sue-happy environment.
And moreover, they do not want to know.
They just WANT. They have no concept that they are TAKING from someone else - namely the people providing the care.
Indeed, a good portion of my problem in this blogosphere - tying to get public/press attention focused on the mega-cluster-screw I endured in public service (which certainly demonstrates how out-of-control the “bloated administrative branch” of the profession is) . . . is that no one cares about the people actually providing the care.
They just WANT.
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