So I asked Mr. B.’s 40ish pediatrician, when he went in for a physical recently, if she was looking forward to working for the feds under Obamacare. She frowned and said, well, looking on the bright side, she might make more money. Peedees, after all, are not high fliers on the physician food chain.
The problem she foresees is all the extra paperwork she’ll have to hire someone to deal with and the inevitable interference in her medical judgement by, as you might think of the new federal Independent Payment Advisory Board, “fifteen philosopher kings who will rule over U.S. health care.”
Not that Mr. B.’s pediatrician doesn’t already see some of that from the health insurance companies, but she fears it will be much, much worse with the feds who are not known for efficiency in anything and don’t have the profit motive as an incentive. “I just might quit and write a book,” she said.
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