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What’s Killing the Practice of Medicine.

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What’s Killing the Practice of Medicine.

By: David Barnes, MD

As we conclude our look at What’s Killing Ouachita Parish, I am picking up where Jason Read left off. We have seen the Governments recent attempts to reshape health care from new initiatives requiring EHR and the “Meaningful Use” there of, to the remaking of the entire Health Care system with the passage of the Affordable Care Act. We hear all the time about how health care in the U. S. ranks below so and so countries. We see editorial after editorial, political debate after political debate, and on occasion doctors giving their opinions on the problems with our health care system: the plight of the uninsured, health care being a right vs a privilege, the over crowded ER’s, access to care, and so on.

So while we are looking at What’s Killing Ouachita Parish lets look at What&8117;s Killing the Practice of Medicine. The number one issue is cost. So why is it?

WHY

Why is it that the government continues to expand its health care programs while refusing to address the programs costs and unintended consequences?