What happens if ObamaCare is overturned?

[Mr Khan]

xwan said:
I'm a practicing physician, i can tell you that alot of patients will have insurance but they will have a hard time seeing a doctor; waiting and referral will be long; there will be more E.R. visits but this time these will be "paid" E.R. visits and not "Cash Patients" (like now) which just means they won't pay. Reimbursement for Medicaid/Medical, Medicare needs to be increased to doctors; we have been getting alot of IOU from the government and this makes us not want to deal with Medi/Medi patients because we are not paid and sometimes they are 80% of the outpatient practice.

Look, everyone needs coverage, just like everyone needs Car insurance in California to legally drive. Because your health puts everyone else at risk because u get dx with cancer and needs a million dollar work up with repeat CT, Radiation, Chemo, and then of course most patients end up dying anyways, whos going to pay for the care? All you individualistic people who does not support health insurance for everyone will be paying.

The cycle repeats itself, cut the middle man (insurance company), have an unified payer, increase reimbursement, increase residency slots and medical school in the U.S. to prepare to the increasing wave of elderly patients.

The problem is unified payer would likely cut your pay significantly. I've heard that starting salary for American general practitioners is something on the order of $125k a year, whereas in, say, Japan, such salary amounts to about $50k a year. Still a solid starting salary, but much much lower.

Costs for services have to go down across the board, with hospitals and doctors accepting that they're going to get paid a lot less (for instance, the same CT Scan at the same hospital can cost between $800 and $2600 depending on what insurance company pays. That's nonsensical, and even $800 is a little on the high end of what it should cost in the first place), and hopefully a regime will be installed where (unfortunately) a lot of the administrative assistants will be rendered unnecessary.