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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank ACA.[/quote]

This has nothing to do with the ACA. [/quote]

Oh oh we have an expert here with first hand experience. Smh...all doctors will tell you ACA has made providing care harder, quality has come down etc etc. I know you're a dem but sometimes you just have to accept "facts"[/quote]

Spoken like a true “always wrong but rarely in doubt” MAGAt.[/quote]

Actually.  I am a doctor and this is the sentiment.  We have seen the changes first hand since ACA kicked in, you start to insure more and more with lower compensation = more people to treat for the same amount of money = quality of care goes down.

fun fact, the cost of these procedures has not increased for decades.  For god sakes how can you PCP annual visit only be worth $50 for the provider??? How much is a meal for a family of 4?  thats BS and you know it.

You must be on the younger side.  This has been happening long before ACA.  The American Medical Association (AMA) found that Medicare reimbursement for clinicians dropped by 22% from 2001 to 2021. AMA wasn't passed until 2010.  No PCPs that I know (and I've been one since 1999) feel this way.  The issue has always been that Medicare does not value preventative care and reimbursements for procedures have always been far higher.  It's been that way since the start of Medicare in 1965, but now there is so much more bureacracy with medicine and there is barely reimbursement for anything.  The Primary Care practices just can't afford it.  You can't squeeze water from a stone.

But you guys carry on as we go out of network.  [/quote][/quote]

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