Tuesday August 25, 2009 at 10:01
Excellent case study of the status quo killing primary care.
Read Dr. Harris’ full commentary on CNN.com.
First I demonstrated in my own practice that I could put my ‘house’ in order.
Then I worked with practices from all over the US to show that we’re still willing and able.
Then we demonstrated once again that true high quality primary care requires more resouces.
Then we were stonewalled again and again and again and again by an insurance industry that frankly doesn’t seem to care.
At the moment the only successful responses to the intransigence of the insurance industry are:
A: become an employee of one of the successful corporate health care settings (Geisinger, Kaiser, Group Health, etc) who have either bargaining power or created their own insurance
or
B: ditch the insurance strangle-hold and work directly with consumers.
