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Old 07-22-2012, 07:57 PM
 
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Not sure about becoming unionized, but more doctors will become employees of hospitals. You will see less independent practicioners. With the push towards developing ACOs and the cost/time of electronic medical records required from Obamacare, it will be easier to let the hospital do the work and the doctor just become an employee.
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Old 07-23-2012, 09:47 AM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Let them unionize. It is their right to do so. Big deal.
Did you see the video? Do you really think that forcing doctors to unionize, as employees, is a good thing? If so then you must think that socialized medicine is the answer to all our health problems. I hope not but your agreement with other socialists here makes me wonder.
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Old 07-23-2012, 09:49 AM
 
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Not sure about becoming unionized, but more doctors will become employees of hospitals. You will see less independent practicioners. With the push towards developing ACOs and the cost/time of electronic medical records required from Obamacare, it will be easier to let the hospital do the work and the doctor just become an employee.
When health care went to the HMO model, the doctors became employees of the HMO.

I guess the OP won't be able to go to doctors any more because they'll be evil union members.
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Old 07-23-2012, 09:51 AM
 
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Kewl ... if they unionize then conservatives will have an excuse to vilify them, a future GOP administration can have fun busting the union and the doctors will all become Democrats.
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Old 07-23-2012, 09:54 AM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Not sure about becoming unionized, but more doctors will become employees of hospitals. You will see less independent practicioners. With the push towards developing ACOs and the cost/time of electronic medical records required from Obamacare, it will be easier to let the hospital do the work and the doctor just become an employee.
A number of years ago my favorite doctor, a woman from India, left our town because as a foreigner she had been required to come to a small town to practice. Under the agreement she had to work for the hospital and its clinic but once the agreement had been over two or three years she got into a dispute with the head woman in the hospital and up and left. She loved the small town but just couldn't stand the administrator. She wanted to practice privately, but when forced to do things as an employee just had to go.

What happens when bureaucrats call the shots for all those doctors? What happens when those bureaucrats aren't doctors? Oh well maybe you people are right in that socialized medicine is the answer. I don't think so.
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