The ongoing debate around healthcare reform often centers around what is best for the patient as consumer of healthcare. Sure, doctors are often brought into the mix, but are usually relegated to matters of the periphery — portrayed as forced to capitulate to the strong arm of the insurance companies and government payers. Well, in a way, that is partially true. The level of reimbursement from those physicians who see patients covered by Medicare, for example, can make up a significant amount of a primary care physician’s revenue. And, that is where the debate on healthcare reform should steer next, according to those it directly impacts on the front line — the primary care physicians. Bordering on seeming apocalypse, many primary care providers are presaging the death of the specialty — unless something is done to save it. | LINK

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