four tenths of one percent
Is what would be saved to the health care system with a 20% reduction paid to PT industry. This is certainly not a good way to help save significant dollars to the health care system. High time policy wonks looked elsewhere.
Uwe Reinhardt’s estimate of physician’s take home pay to the health care system is approx 10%. I generously put ours at 2%.
From the op-ed article in USA Today Doctors’ Pay Cuts Save Little in Health Care Costs by Kevin Pho of KevinMD blog fame.
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