Today, more young doctors are shying away from opening private practices due to rising costs and the added work of running their own businesses. Instead they are moving to hospitals to employ them for salaried wages.
This means that much of the patient doctor relationship has, and will continue to erode, but ideally, patients will see better discount health care as records move seamlessly within a hospital.
Many a health discount plan help to give medical health plans to people who could not afford them. Rising insurance premiums controlled by the government often create monopolies in the health insurance industry. The newly passed legislation will likely reduce costs on discount health care, but will also encourage more doctors to move to hospitals and away from private practices.
Because many specialty surgeons and private practitioners have to face rising insurance premiums for their patients, they do not see much of the money they charge; healthcare uninsured makes it so that having a private practice does not benefit them. Plus, many private health insurance providers cut reimbursements to specialty doctors.
Quality will improve for the general health discount plan, and costs will lower, but for doctors,
being the days of being their own bosses are limited.
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