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Originally Posted by Villages PL
sunnyatlast, you posted a link that stated doctors at The Villages Health Clinics will be paid generous salaries so they won't have to rush. They can spend as much time as they need to help a patient. Where does the money come from to pay generous salaries? (And I believe at the time that link was written, no one knew that there would be extensive use of Physician's Assistants.)
Also, no one knew that the clinics would end up serving mostly HMO patients. How does that figure into the equation? Are doctors getting generous salaries from an unknown source or are they getting money from Medicare and the HMO?
Anyway, If Medicare pays less and less for doctor-visits and procedures, and HMOs are not known to be generous with their payments, where are the generous salaries coming from?
I don't think you should suggest that The Villages Clinics have the solution to Florida's healthcare problems because the clinics represent an on-going experiment. The verdict isn't in yet.
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Bump: I'm still wondering where the generous salaries are coming from, especially due to the fact that we have been told that the clinic doctors only take on about half as many patients as other doctors need to to make a living.