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Originally Posted by whell
They already are. Most docs are affiliating with major hospitals for two reasons:
- one, to leverage the hospital's bargaining power
- because services performed within a hospital setting are reimbursed at a higher rate by Medicare
They might as well do it now, though. Once they go single payer, their bargaining power will go to zero.
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Whell your eyes must be brown, SinglePayer works and works damn well. Of course in this nation of middlemen they could conceivably screw up the Lord's Prayer.