The wealthy owners of professional sports franchises have managed to fleece taxpayers into paying for a substantial portion of what it cost to build their palatial playpens. And because of limited seating, 99.99 percent of the idiots who voted to approve paying for the building of those stadiums would never bee able to attend any of the games. And for the sports fans who could afford the hefty price of season tickets, they could not even buy any of them until they first purchased expensive seat licenses.
Now it appears that some doctors have come up with a similar scheme. One of the guys in our volunteer group at the nature center told us that he just received an email from the doctor he’s been seeing for many years. The email advised him that the good doctor was reducing his patient load from 1,200 to a maximum of 500 so that he could give his remaining patients the personal attention he deserved. And here is the catch: Each of the 500 ‘lucky’ (my term) patients would have to plunk down $1500 for the privilege of receiving that personal attention.
What a supreme crock of shit! Personal attention my ass. More and more doctors have turned the business part of their medical practice over to professional management firms. Now the bean counters have come up with a ‘seat license’ scheme of their own, one that would enable a doctor to reduce his patient case load without the loss of income while giving him more time for golf. Here’s a good reason why government regulations for the health care industry may not be all that bad.
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