Physician pay only makes up 7.5% of healthcare costs in the US. So while debt relief and elimination of tuition coinciding with a reduction in physician compensation could be a reasonable reform, especially to bring specialists in line with PCPs, there will also have to be protections in place to prevent that downward pressure from creating yet more fertile ground for private equity to consume even more practices.
Physician pay only makes up 7.5% of healthcare costs in the US. So while debt relief and elimination of tuition coinciding with a reduction in physician compensation could be a reasonable reform, especially to bring specialists in line with PCPs, there will also have to be protections in place to prevent that downward pressure from creating yet more fertile ground for private equity to consume even more practices.
If we've passed M4A, I'd like to think a ban on private equity in healthcare would already be on the books, but yeah, I agree with you.