WASHINGTON — There's enough controversy surrounding health care reform. Editor Shawn Tully of Fortune magazine recently added one more to the pot: A potential lack of doctors to take care of the patients who will now have health coverage.
In a recent article, Tully explained that while ACA increases health-care coverage, it will also freeze "the ranks of the already-busy providers needed to furnish all those extra check-ups, cancer screenings and angioplasties: Americans physicians."
Tully interviewed University of Pennsylvania oncologist Dr. Richard Cooper, who explained that simple supply and demand is at work here. Expanding demand and cutting fees, which is what the ACA is about, means doctors will take the higher-paying patients and ignore the lower-paying ones.
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