In light of the federal healthcare overhaul, an advocacy organization for health freedom is calling on doctors to change the methods of their practice in order to better service patients.
As OneNewsNow recently noted, a study by the Physicians Foundation shows that nearly 45,000 full-time doctors will leave the medical field if ObamaCare is fully implemented. So to counter the loss, Twila Brase of Citizens' Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) suggests that doctors adapt their practices to deal with the changing times.
"They need to look at opening up private practices, cash-based practices; they need to get out of the whole insurance scheme of it," she asserts.
"There are patients who need care … they say they can't afford it, and that may or may not be true if doctors were taking cash payments," Brase offers.
"When you get out of having to put in all the paperwork and have all the staff needed to do all the paperwork for the government, or all the paperwork for health plans -- once you leave all that paperwork behind, healthcare becomes much less expensive."
The CCHF president advises doctors to return to being the independent practitioners they once were and escape the restraints of third-party payment systems.
Due to restrictions, physicians today are working less, seeing fewer patients, and cutting back access to their practices.