Medicare plus 5% saves 110 BN Dollars

I can't help but wonder how a single-payer plan would score with the CBO.

I'm worried about how decreasing reimbursement to health care providers is going to reshape that industry. Consider what's happening in Florida with primary care physicians.

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/oct/...bursement-cut/

I'm healthy and I don't have any relatives in Florida so I guess we can give it a shot and see what happens. I do feel badly for any physician who is forced to move from Florida just to be able to make a living. I also feel badly for their patients.

Granted, nowhere in the article does the author say that doctors will leave the state. I'm theorizing that could happen based on the pay cuts that have happened and those that are planned. If my pay were reduced by 50-60%, I'd have to consider moving elsewhere.

Very thought-provoking article, azhiker. One also has to wonder if the President's plan for this includes mandating who will and who won't go to medical school. Already, many new docs don't want to do anything but 9-5 clinics, so just what about this plan will make it pretty enough to encourage a lot of the best and brightest to even want to go to med school? I can't believe that doctors won't leave Florida under that plan, because it looks like it really stinks. But if the President gets his way, all the states are going to be in the same pot, and we're all in trouble.