As political decisions increasingly affect healthcare, doctors weigh in on the changes and challenges they’ll likely see with the new administration.
Ever since President-Elect Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr to run the Department of Health and Human Services , the spotlight has been on improving the health of Americans as much as his alternative take on some widely accepted practices.
Support for immunization is critically important, added Michael Gerling, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon with offices in New York and New Jersey. “If RFK does, in fact, get into office, the hope is that he isn’t going to undermine the well-documented public health benefits of vaccines,” Gerling told Because vaccine hesitancy has remained an issue since the pandemic, doctors need to speak respectfully with patients about their concerns — no matter what the administration opts to recommend.
“Every year, they lower the amount we get paid,” he said, adding that while he was once paid $155-$165 per visit, he is now paid $110-$120 per visit. “This year, we’ll get a 2.8% cut, and, while that doesn’t sound like a lot, if this happens every year, you’re getting paid less and less over time, and this doesn’t match what it takes to rent a space or order the equipment you need — none of that stuff ever goes down in price.
“We want women who are having miscarriages to be able to access the appropriate medical and surgical intervention without them becoming sick or, worse, bleeding to death,” Gaither said. “There are already women who have lost their lives because they had a miscarriage and didn’t get the appropriate services because their physicians were afraid to treat them.”
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