Obamacare Rising Costs Creating Challenges for Physicians

With President-Elect Donald Trump having campaigned vowing to repeal Obamacare, there are some who feel that the federal government’s announcement that premiums for midlevel health plans under the Affordable Care Act are expected to increase by an average of 25% in 2017 is nothing to worry about.
Still, until Trump does something—and he has wavered on the issue since the election and some in Washington don’t see the change coming as quickly as he claims—the increase is somewhat concerning and something that physicians need to keep an eye on.
Pedram Salimpour, MD, believes what is happening is that the business of medicine is becoming corrosive to the practice of medicine.
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