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medicaid right now and what s going to happen when more medicaid patients come into the fold as they expand. greta: two question, what is the impact to you as a doctor? and doctors are also patients, you can give me, you are going to be a patient, whether you like it or not, sooner or later. how will you be affected as a patient? let s face it, we need reform. the current recipe that we have is not working. what i am happy about is they managed to keep the prudent layperson standard there, which basically lets us allow our patients to come in and still be seen for emergency care. you know, we can t put the onus on the patient to say, oh that, chest pain i have is just a bum stomach or indigestion. that was something that really concerned me as an emergency physician. i don t want my patient self-diagnosing. they i want them to come in and be seen by a competent physician and be treated.
going to happen when more medicaid patients come into the fold as they expand. greta: two question, what is the impact to you as a doctor? and doctors are also patients, you can give me, you are going to be a patient, whether you like it or not, sooner or later. how will you be affected as a patient? let s face it, we need reform. the current recipe that we have is not working. what i am happy about is they managed to keep the prudent layperson standard there, which basically lets us allow our patients to come in and still be seen for emergency care. you know, we can t put the onus on the patient to say, oh that, chest pain i have is just a bum stomach or indigestion. that was something that really concerned me as an emergency physician. i don t want my patient self-diagnosing. they i want them to come in and be seen by a competent physician and be treated.