Tom Emerick
Posted 1/11/12 on Cracking Health Costs
According to a nearly breathless article in CCN, some doctors in the U.S. are going broke. Read it here. I feel sorry for anyone who goes broke, but why all the gnashing of teeth when it happens to a health provider?
According to the author, some doctors have unsustainable debt and are facing reimbursement reductions by insurers. A good question is whose fault is unsustainable debt? After all, many of our institutions have become bloated and can’t adapt to the economic downturn.