true medicare does not pay enough, but that is for OFFICE VISITS.
Procedures are money maker, the whole billing side of healthcare is scam, that would make barney mad-off look like the pope.
Just opened a clinic for a grouped of ENT specialist, $5million price tag, if it did not pay enough, guess how they are financing the $5 mil.
nothing wrong with medicare,
complaining about medicare not paying enough is like you buying a bently (sorry Dr Haas) and buying a house in La Joya, CA on your fresh graduate from say engineering salary and then complaining to your boss that you are paying enough.
what amazes me is that all the politicians and our friends in the big insurance firms are debating and counter debating like this is a new thing, like cloning a humanbeing or something.
look around, err I mean outside our border, many nations around the world have "figured" it out and have been so since even before my birth.
no I am not talking about some backward 3rd world asian country, look at europe!
with our current system, grandma without any insurance has NO dighnity when she as to walk into a healthcare providers office.
that is a darn shame. now put yourself in those shoes...
living in michigan and working at a big hospital, I see my neighbors, friends without any coverage.
then I see this healthcare system, no different than the big 3 automaker in the wastage, overpricing, lack of quality, no competition and worst the attitude of entitlement.
$400k is the salary of good transplant surgeon, for some that is not enough.
to quote one family practice resident who was about to graduate on my question, dr lalala what are your plans after you graduate?
his response: I am going back to Indianapolis and going to print money. and he could not stop laughing. ;-)
now I am off to bill the hospital for my work!
