{"id":841,"date":"2007-12-07T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2007-12-07T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T15:32:00","slug":"doctors-endorse-single-payer-philadelphia-inquirer-12-04-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"Doctors endorse single-payer | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12\/04\/2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/business\/20071204_Doctors_endorse_single-payer.html\">Doctors endorse single-payer Philadelphia Inquirer 12\/04\/2007<\/a>:<br \/>&#8220;Because much of the growth in expense in the current system is in procedures performed by specialists or in increased use of technology like MRIs, doctors who work in those areas have the most to fear from a single-payer system, Getzen said. Internists, who serve as primary-care doctors for many people, have less to fear.<\/p>\n<p>The ACP also called for better payments for primary-care doctors to help avert a shortage and for the creation of a uniform billing system and greater use of electronic health records to reduce administrative costs.<\/p>\n<p>Dale said that some U.S. doctors and hospitals were better than their counterparts in other nations, but that this country&#8217;s health system compares poorly. &#8216;Part of our call is, &#8216;Look around, guys, and see how other people are doing,&#8217; &#8216; he said, &#8216;and they&#8217;re doing better than us.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><em>Nicely done summary of where most of the tension in advocating for single payer lays.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annals.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/0000605-200801010-00196v1\">ACP position paper is here<\/a>, and I believe free to anyone.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>Cheers,<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors endorse single-payer Philadelphia Inquirer 12\/04\/2007:&#8220;Because much of the growth in expense in the current system is in procedures performed by specialists or in increased use of technology like MRIs, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=841\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doctors endorse single-payer | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12\/04\/2007&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,5,54,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physician-income","category-single-payer-health-care","category-us-world-health-care-comparisons","category-us-world-health-care-policy"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}