Who Didn't Seee This Coming?

[mzmadmike]

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news%2Fstate&id=8729292

Texas Medical Association survey given to The Associated Press over the weekend found that the number of Texas doctors willing to accept government-funded health insurance plans for the poor and the elderly has dropped dramatically amid complaints about low pay and red tape.

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[hugh_mannity]

I work for a physician hospital organisation. We don't "do" medicaid as an organisation because we operate on a risk-sharing basis with several HMOs. For a while we were taking Medicare Risk plan patients (i.e. people who were paying an HMO to cover stuff that Medicare didn't) but we don't do that anymore either

[septithol]

Mike, I think that medicine, along with a lot of other things, such as cleaning up the environment or trying to travel closer and closer to the speed of light is subject to what might be termed 'the law of diminishing returns'. Which means, you can maybe get 90 or even 99% of what you want, which is pretty good, for fairly cheaply, but once you reach that point, any further improvements will cost more and more money. For instance, it may be fairly cheap to remove 90-99% of the pollution from a factory, but after that, removing part of the remaining 1% will cost fantastic amounts of money, and the greater the amount of the remaining 1% of pollution you try to remove, the more and more money it will cost