What do new health care reforms mean for future doctors?
I am a freshman in college and planning on going to medical school and becoming a surgeon. In your opinion, what do Obama’s new health care reforms and overall tendencies of health care in the U.S. mean for doctors? Will they be paid less? Will it be harder for doctors to have their own practices? How will it affect patients?
Well, doctors presently are beginning to stop taking medicare patients because obama care cut the pay for their services. You do know that the bill cut 500BILLION dollars out of the medicare system. It is something to watch, because we havent got there (single-payor) yet, but in the future, if it does become reality, the government will control how much you can charge, because they will be the ones paying you. The government will also control what procedures you will be able to perform and onto whom you do it. People looks at universal health care with rosey colored glasses and not reality