Small Business: Doctors going broke – Jan. 5, 2012.
Reimbursement for chemotherapeutic agents has decreased to the point that oncologists in private practice are losing money and taking out loans to stay in practice. The burden of government compliance as well as the technical expertise and business expertise needed to run a private practice makes it an almost impossible task.
This is the second of the pressures coming from Obamacare which will drive half of physicians out of private practice.
Populations in rural areas will be most adversely affected by the loss of these practices. We already understand that this population is not a priority concern of the Obama administration, because it is too white, too evangelical, too rural.
The Obama campaign has given up on the support from white working people in the 2012 election. Do not expect this particular problem to be addressed. Obama will kill private medical practices in a similar way that he is killing small farm businesses.
