The Doctor Is In Turning Back the Clock: " In a 2002 study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), nearly 72% of physicians provided charity care, although the percentage had declined somewhat from previous years, especially in practices with a high percentage of managed care. Ethically, the large majority of physicians feel a strong responsibility to provide needed care to those who cannot afford it."..
So here’s another proposal to consider: why not turn back the clock a bit, and create incentives for charity care? Let’s encourage physicians to see patients for free...
Provide tax credits to physicians for charity care. Fund health care for the poor directly out of tax receipts.
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Tax credits for those rich doctors...that might be a hard sell!
Sam
Agreed--but there might be a greater incentive for charity care!
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