The plan's most tangible efforts to restrain medical costs are through its controls on specialist physicians. Based on the government's premise that they often make wasteful treatment decisions, the health-care legislation in Congress will subject doctors to a mix of financial penalties and regulations to constrain their use of the most costly clinical options. The penalties and regulations are aimed first and foremost at surgeons and the medical devices that they use, largely because that's where the bulk of spending is.This article is for the Doctors in denial.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Scott Gottlieb: What Doctors and Patients Have to Lose Under ObamaCare - WSJ.com
Scott Gottlieb: What Doctors and Patients Have to Lose Under ObamaCare - WSJ.com
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