Rad Onc dodges the bullet. We didn't.

[maniax]

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ASTRO's efforts were successful because the overal amount spent on Rad Onc is only a tiny fraction of what is spent on Rads or Cards. They basically just decreased the number of specialties that were going to be going to battle against this. Billions are spent on imaging and cardiology so we are the easy target. Politicians confuse cutting spending with cutting costs. It's like me deciding that my rent is too much of my budget so I am able to arbitrarily cut my rent check with no negotiation and nothing my landlord can do about it.

 

[Paddington]

IMO, all that stuff is completely irrelevant and a total distraction right now. All doctors' efforts right now should be focused on defeating Obama's health care bill. Period. Instead, the various organizations are chasing minutia like Medicare reimbursement rates. I know the AMA went along initially with Obama's healthcare plan before those *****s even knew what was in it, because he promised not to deliver a 19% Medicare cut. Then later on when the bill came out, it featured the cut anyway. So Obama gets 6 months of news headlines from coast to coast saying "DOCTORS SUPPORT NEW HEALTHCARE BILL!" and doctors get nothing.

I dunno, maybe it matters to old men who are practicing right now and will probably retire in the next 5-10 years anyway. 😴

But to young guys, all this stuff about reimbursement rates and Medicare is short term and completely irrelevant in the face of massive structural changes that they're trying to push through. People should be marching on the streets right now and going on strike.

 

[MossPoh]

Marching on the streets for what? Nobody has any clue what is going on right now or what is even proposed. Everything is hearsay and guesses. To claim you do know what will happen is just ignorant to the complexity of the situation that everyone agrees needs to be fixed, but nobody knows how to go about doing it.