From my vantage point the increasing costs of health insurance has nothing to do with the cost of physician reimbursement, but rather the increasing need for insurance companies to show "quarterly profit growth" every quarter.
Every doctor out there knows they are not being paid more. The insurance companies MARKET "socialized medicine" as some type of dastardly effort by the government to control how healthcare is delivered, when the reality is there is no greater CONTROLLER of the delivery of healthcare, than the insurance company:
They decide which doctor you see.
They decide which hospital you go to.
They decide which diagnostic tests to authorize.
They decide which procedures to pay for.
They decide how long your hospital stay is.
They do this with their eye on their next quarterly earnings report. The sooner they get out of the healthcare equation the better for the healthcare system.
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." ~ Alvin Toffler
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