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Editor’s Note: In a recent "State Spotlight" for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, reprinted below, Manatt Health discusses the investments and efforts that the Commonwealth of...
Making Medicaid available to more people was found to decrease fatalities, revealed study. The study shows that expanding Medicaid may result in an overall drop in adult deaths each year.
Be open to new patients. >> reporter: so why is that happening? one reason is plain and simple, it's money. the average primary care doctor makes $173,000 a year. compare that to $419,000 for cardiologists or $335,000 for oncologists treating cancer. how much of this is about money, just compensation? >> i think that's a major reason why a lot of medical students aren't choosing family medicine. the potential for financial gain is just not the same as those other fields. >> reporter: the health care bill does try to fix that. there's a 10% pay bump to family physicians through medicare. and th...