4.3.10 | Chris Seper

Best of MedCitizens: Docs betrayed, BSX’s $470M woes

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Doctors got schooled on April Fools. “Medicare cannot be saved under the current entitlement rules. The economics are a scam. The AMA and the ACP have been played like little girls in the greatest April Fools joke of all time. They got nothing accomplished except a guarantee of massive physician cuts for years to come. And they thought repealing of the SGR was the Holy Grail. How could they be so naive.”

Defibrillator halt could cost Boston Scientific $470M. “Wells Fargo Securities analyst Larry Biegelsen is projecting a $469 million loss in defibrillator sales over the next two years”

Private practice is dead? Not quite. “How could I possibly scoff at the fact that an article in the New York Times suggests that quite possibly it is time to throw in the towel by the physician masses? Because its short sighted, cowardly, and undermines the creative and entrepreneurial fabric from which many of our country’s greatest practices are woven.”

Canadians mixed about their health care, too. “There’s no way the US will convert to a Canadian-style system. And if somehow it happened you wouldn’t find Americans expressing as much satisfaction about such a system as Canadians do. Part of that may be national temperament: Americans the rugged individualists, Canadians more in the soft Western European mold.”