{"id":118,"date":"2010-06-19T23:51:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T03:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2010-06-20T00:01:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T04:01:47","slug":"medicare-cut-goes-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cheapiv.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Cut Goes Through"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it was very depressing news I got this morning: Congress did not back the Doctor fix and went through with the Medicare cut of 21%.\u00c2\u00a0 I wrote on 6\/2 how this system is very fragile <\/a>and this while not time sensitive to the stock market is the start of something very big.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, this cut is going to hurt all Medicare patients.\u00c2\u00a0 It is going to create a very large problem of access to Doctors.\u00c2\u00a0 Who will get blamed for this…the Doctors.\u00c2\u00a0 They are in the most difficult position because they have already been squeezed.\u00c2\u00a0 Main street media positions the Doctors as “rich” and they have the ability to absorbs the cuts.\u00c2\u00a0 Physicians have\u00c2\u00a0 not had an increase in reimbursement rates for the past 7 years even while the Medical Insurance keeps increasing.\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile medical expenses of their staff have gone up just as much as every other business around the country.\u00c2\u00a0 The majority of a physician’s expenses are tied up with\u00c2\u00a0 their staff.\u00c2\u00a0 Their margins have been squeezed by insurance companies and government lowering of reimbursements through Medicare and Medicaid.<\/p>\n

So here is what will happen immediately:<\/strong><\/p>\n