Lane 3

The Biggest Losers

Doctors! The latest in health care reform has a proposal coming out of the House Ways and Means for a 4 percent levy on incomes exceeding $200,000 (read doctors). Physicians already face the threat of lower Medicare reimbursements and increased expenses associated with implementation of EMR systems. So practice revenue will be going down while expense go up – all at the same time the doctors’ take-home pay gets hit with a tax increase.

Isn’t it ironic that doctors will be paying the way to see more lower profit margin patients? Who knew that making health insurance affordable could be so expensive?