How Health-Care Reform Could Hurt Doctor-Owned Hospitals

BY KATE PICKERT AND KEN STIER

‘Will our kid go to medical school or not?’

Dr. X talked to me. She said to me this morning, ‘Dr. Y called me yesterday. He worry about the Obama’s health plan that will hurt doctors heart.’

“I think so’, I replied. I’m in empathy.

And then I find this article of NATION on http://www.time.com/time/

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1909946,00.html

How Health-Care Reform Could Hurt Doctor-Owned Hospitals

By KATE PICKERT AND KEN STIER Monday, Jul. 13, 2009

Even as Congress struggles with how to pay for health-care reform, the White House keeps doing it its best to accentuate the positive. Last week, Vice President Joe Biden hosted the country's three largest hospital trade groups as they announced they will accept $155 billion in Medicare and Medicaid cuts over the next 10 years. It's all part of an inspiring storyline, the idea that everyone is doing their part to make this most ambitious undertaking a reality. But no one actually thinks that the hospitals — or for that matter other key players like pharmaceutical manufacturers or doctors — are giving up something for nothing. On the contrary, any health-reform package passed by Congress will likely deal a major blow to an upstart competitor of many hospitals.