Re: why doctors want doctors…
Good post.
Much of it is true in US.
The biggest hit is on medicine side and its specialties. Hospitals still making lots of money and their reimbursement is going upward.
The trend is that hospitals now employing physicians and buying their practices.
This is worrisome. The independence of physicians are slowly being taken away.
The quality of patient care will definitely be down.
Physicians in private practice have lot of personal attachment with patients but as employees, that may not be there and patients will be seen as just another number. Incentives are there but not enough to make physicians work hard. Since the reimbursement by hospitals will flatten out at some point.
It is like nationalizing the healthcare. Big hospital chains monopolize the care of the patients and patients also get less choices to seek medical care of their liking.