Originally Posted by gomoho (Post 1004663)

We can stop a lot of the Medicare fraud ourselves by asking questions......

Originally Posted by Villages PL (Post 1006570)

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.

Originally Posted by Villages PL (Post 1007255)

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.

Originally Posted by Villages PL (Post 1007248)

Prove it!!!!

Originally Posted by Barefoot (Post 1007167)

Originally Posted by Villages PL (Post 1007255)

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.

Originally Posted by perrjojo (Post 1007283)

My son has a private practice and was considering selling. He interviewed with TV and said there was no way the practice could be profitable unless someone was subsidizing the salaries. I guess that mean old greedy developer must be subsidizing the salaries.

Originally Posted by dbussone (Post 1007260)

How do you know their salaries are generous? If you do know, what are they?

Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 1007268)

That's my line.

And you are conveniently ignoring answering the people who called your post out that stated doctors will walk out on you if you ask questions by trying to divert the conversation on to generous salaries for TV doctors.

I think enough of us have shown that doctors do not walk out on you for asking questions.

Originally Posted by Villages PL (Post 1007291)

I guess you didn't read my post very carefully and you didn't read the link provided by sunnyatlast. It was his link that stated "generous salaries".

Originally Posted by perrjojo (Post 1007283)

My son has a private practice and was considering selling. He interviewed with TV and said there was no way the practice could be profitable unless someone was subsidizing the salaries. I guess that mean old greedy developer must be subsidizing the salaries.

Originally Posted by Villages PL (Post 1007248)

Prove it!!!!

Originally Posted by dbussone (Post 1007297)

I guess you didn't read your own post. The word generous was in your post and not footnoted, if you wish to get technical about things.

Originally Posted by Villages PL (Post 1007310)

The Villages Clinics was said to be a model that the rest of the nation might eventually follow. But if they can only succeed by being subsidized, perhaps it means this new revolutionary health care system has failed. It seems it can't stand on its own merits, at least not yet. So we have to wonder if it ever will. As I said before, "The verdict isn't in yet."