Have you ever thought that being a doctor simply meant providing medical interventions for patients suffering from illness or injury? Think again, President Biden’s administration says.
Effective January 1st, doctors who work with Medicare patients can boost their earnings by conducting a “clinic-wide review” of its “commitment to anti-racism” that includes “value statements” and a change in “clinical practice guidelines.”
Under the new reimbursement rate model, doctors must define race as “a political and social construct, not a physiological one.” Doctors and medical researchers have warned that ignoring race’s physiological underpinnings will discourage genetic testing and worsen racial health disparities.
Despite the warnings, the rationale provided for the boosted reimbursements is that “it is important to acknowledge systemic racism as a root cause for differences in health outcomes between socially-defined racial groups.”
The new rules will update Medicare’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, which determines eligible doctors’ reimbursement rates. That system was approved with broad bipartisan support by Congress in 2015 to reward doctors for high-quality, cost-effective medical care – and also penalizes them for providing unnecessary and costly services.
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Big Bad Joe B
What a racist.
Much more preferable to misdiagnose or kill a patient than touch their ego
> “it is important to acknowledge systemic racism as a root cause for differences in health outcomes between socially-defined racial groups.”
The same fallacious “though pattern” (with the same predictable lethal results) that moved old COVID patients out of hospitals into old age homes
Certainly a policy to treat anti-c19 shot patients equally, and also anti-vaxxers, should openly be a part of an idea like this.
Brainwashing has taken a new path under Biden with the government paying people to “accept” the evidence-lite or -free political conclusions they desire to impose upon the populace.
It is well-established (sorry, I don’t have any citations) that African Americans receive different medical treatment for the same ailments that white people have. I don’t know whether the Biden policy will solve the problem, but the problem needs to be addressed.
lastword > Certainly a policy to treat anti-c19 shot patients equally, and also anti-vaxxers
when there is a situation of a spike in hospitalization, like now, someone is going to decide who to treat first. It is possible that someone (officially or not) will put less priority on people who did not vax, or, even worse, on people who look or dress like people who are known to be unsafe (something R Heinemann warned about)/
Always Asks Questions has asked, indirectly and by implication, a good question: IF Covid care must be rationed or prioritized by triage because hospitals are overloaded with Covid cases, should non-vaxxers (with no medical reason not to vax) be denied treatment until the backlog of vaxxed patients are treated? I don’t know enough about medical ethics to answer knowledgably, but it is a tough and relevant question for hospitals and physicians. Halachically, I think all lives are equal, so no preference can be given to vaxxers. But should patients be treated on a first-come-first-serve basis? And why should the first to arrive be treated first?
The big elephant in the room is VAXXED PEOPLE NEEDING MEDICAL TREATMENT AND HOSPITALIZATION.
Aren’t they vaxxed??
What’s the purpose of vaxxing if they need the same care as unvaxxed????