11/11/2015    

RESPONSES/COMMENTS (PM NEWS QUICK POLL) - PART 1A

RE: If there were a one-day physician strike, would you participate?

From:  William Deutsch, DPM

 

American physicians should regard the happenings in Great Britain as junior doctors ballot for a strike to oppose unsafe working conditions in hospitals. Long hours, reduced overtime, a paltry pay raise has the junior doctor's (residents) Union ready to vote. They have the full support of the BMA. They're not talking about a one-day strike which would go unnoticed. The advantage they have is their strike is against the government which salaries NHS doctors. 

 

Who is the one-day strike in America directed against? The only effective response American physicians can offer is non-participation in all insurance plans, and not just for a day. An insurance company that has no participating physicians is out of business. PPACA reform began and ended with insurers. The fallout from PPACA on the landscape of healthcare wasn't accidental. 

 

EMR and MU are the government's 'common core' response to physician-administered healthcare. They are administrative burdens which only help bean counters, while leaving doctors to drown in a sea of confusion. Like the good lemmings we are, we march dutifully to our own demise. 

 

William Deutsch, DPM, Valley Stream, NY

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