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“The Doctor’s Office as Union Shop”

The Obama administration, by intent or accident, has effectively driven a major change in the status of physicians.  By reducing the reimbursement for certain office-based specialists while enhancing related payment to hospitals, the administration is compelling more and more physicians — many of them with an any-port-in-a-storm fatalism — to seek employment with health systems or large physician groups.

Wall Street Journal
“The Doctor’s Office as Union Shop”
January 29, 2013
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