The Medical Association of Georgia is disappointed with today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling to uphold the PPACA. MAG believes the decision is irrelevant as a practical matter unless the systems that the government and other third party payers use to pay physicians are reformed in a full and comprehensive way.
Medicare physicians face a crippling 32 percent cut in pay on Jan. 1, 2013, which because even more physicians will be forced to opt out of the program as a practical economic matter means that seniors and young people with disabilities will struggle to find a physician.
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