The Demise of the General Practitioner Is Caused by Frivolous Medical Malpractice Suits & Defensive Medicine.
It seems that two opposites are drawing down. On one hand, we have the physicians, struggling to be able to continue to heal for a living. On the other, we have the insurance companies and politicians wrangling and writing about, under increasing heat to make health care something like sanely affordable for people to be healthy, yet looking to cut corners at every turn. The government (which theoretically should be We The People) seems dead set on including physicians’ reimbursements as part of those “cut corners”. It’s hard to fathom how all of these groups expect a doctor to accept a reduction on a rate that is already obscenely below standard; already at or below the cost of providing services in the first place. Then we have the patients, themselves struggling with systems that seem unnecessarily complex and uncaring, yet needing the services that only a doctor can provide. And those healers themselves? They’re the ones caught in the middle.