The Happy Hospitalist: “My biggest problem, which I think outweighs all other issues in the health care. And that is balance billing. Payment rates by our government and followed by all third party payers have decimated cognitive medicine, the exact saviour of McCain’s proposed market system. Without balance billing, we will never have a market force in health care. Without balance billing, primary care will never return. Without balance billing access will die a rapid death.”
Note to politicians: Balance billing is essential
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