Physicians remain concerned over the future of U.S. healthcare, a new survey reveals. Among the survey’s findings, most physicians think EHRs and the ACA will adversely affect the quality of patient care, and nearly two-thirds anticipate that quality of healthcare will worsen over the next five years.This is an ironic -- not a humorous -- line because the ACA's burdens on health insurers dwarf those imposed on doctors. What's more the government has spent over $5 billion on electronic health records systems and doctors are dissatisfied. That's really no surprise to me because the doctors didn't have to invest any capital in the systems. There's no incentive on the doctors to make the systems work. They evidently would rather complain. It's not unusual to complain about regulatory burdens like the meaningful use of electronic health records rules but those rules were the government's consideration for the $5 billion expended on those systems. In contrast all that health insurers get from ACA compliance is the right to stay in business.
Speaking of the ACA, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Supreme Court will have three more decision days in the current term, Monday and Thursday of next week and Monday of the following week. The experts are betting that the ACA decision will come down on the final decision day. The FEHBlog is already receiving invites to listen to talks about the decision.
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