The effects of Obamacare on Medicine
According to Obamacare facts "Obamacare contains more than a thousand pages of reforms to the insurance industry and health care sector in order to reduce health care costs and provide affordable health insurance for all Americans." This sounds like a great idea, right? This is the American dream, is not it? For many people, this is a great idea that they will finally be able to receive health care and take that burden off their backs. People see this as someone finally caring and listening, politics finally do something for the people, to the people. For the 44 million people who can not afford health care, this is the best reform Obama will do in his presidential period. But what Obama failed to mention in this whirlwind of Obamacare are the negative effects of Obamacare.
Obamacare leaves the Medicare payment system defective in its place, leaving no solution to the perpetual problem faced by Medicare physicians, the flawed physician payment system. Doctors expected the government to find a solution to this problem, but the government did not. Doctors will now have to rely on unreliable government reimbursement for medical services they provide. Now, doctors will have to face the threat of payment cuts that make their work harder and more stressful than it already is. By 2014, doctors are facing a cut of 25 percent of payments unless Congress passes a law to stop this. Obamacare also imposes more rules, regulations and restrictions to physicians. According to Senger (2013) , " Since 2010, with few exceptions, the law prohibited physicians from referring Medicare patients to hospitals in which they have ownership. Thus, a whole class of physician-owned, specialty hospitals has been removed from competition, even though they enjoyed an undisputed record of providing high-quality patient care.’
The people of the United States are already facing a serious shortage of doctors, now getting worse because of Obamacare. According to the American Association of Medical
Obamacare leaves the Medicare payment system defective in its place, leaving no solution to the perpetual problem faced by Medicare physicians, the flawed physician payment system. Doctors expected the government to find a solution to this problem, but the government did not. Doctors will now have to rely on unreliable government reimbursement for medical services they provide. Now, doctors will have to face the threat of payment cuts that make their work harder and more stressful than it already is. By 2014, doctors are facing a cut of 25 percent of payments unless Congress passes a law to stop this. Obamacare also imposes more rules, regulations and restrictions to physicians. According to Senger (2013) , " Since 2010, with few exceptions, the law prohibited physicians from referring Medicare patients to hospitals in which they have ownership. Thus, a whole class of physician-owned, specialty hospitals has been removed from competition, even though they enjoyed an undisputed record of providing high-quality patient care.’
The people of the United States are already facing a serious shortage of doctors, now getting worse because of Obamacare. According to the American Association of Medical