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The concept of managed care, however, often means that someone that you have never met will develop a list of doctors whom you have never met, and require you tQ see physicians from that list. Insurance companies tell us that this saves money.
What they don’t tell us is that it also creates insecurity. It’s not comforting to be told that you have to see a doctor you don’t know, especially when you’re perfectly pleased with your own doctor whom you may have seen for years. We physicians and the President seemingly agree that it’s important for our patients to know that they can continue to see their own doctor.
Ther are many other things that will be discussed over the next year or so about the President’s plan and the many alternatives that will be offered to it. Physicians will be a part of that discussion, both nationally and in Virginia. Patients must to be a part of that discussion, too.
Patients and their physicans have worked together to cure illnesses before, and we will do it again in this health care reform debate. The three questions I raise here go to the very heart of the President’s plan.
If they are answered correctly, the plan will work. If they are not, the plan will fail. It’s important for everyone that health care reform be successful. It’s a matter of life and health for us all.
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