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While doctors may disagree on the the healthcare reform plans of Congress, it's the nearly universal position of doctors that the real problem is insurance companies, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. (http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20091110_Politics_aside__doctors_universally_fed_up_with_insurers.html
"In any case, doctors' disenchantment with the insurance industry seems to transcend all other views. They decry health plans for restricting and denying care, interfering in medical decisions, and imposing administrative burdens.
" 'The enemy is the insurance companies,' said Sean Green, a family physician in Ardmore. 'They're in business, and their business is making money.'
"David Asch, a physician and professor of health-care economics at the University of Pennsylvania, described a study that found most physicians willing to switch to a slightly less effective cancer screening test to reduce costs - but only if they thought the savings would lower patients' premiums.
" 'Physicians who thought the money went to insurance companies were less in favor of the cheaper test,' Asch said."
"Clearly, what physicians think is influenced by their frustrations and fears. The House Republican Doctors' Caucus, made up of former medical professionals, warns that expanding public insurance options would result in decreased access, interference, more red tape - pretty much the same things that doctors blame on commercial insurers."
