{"id":3285,"date":"2013-05-20T12:31:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2013-05-20T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:31:21","slug":"yet-another-piece-of-evidence-that-obamacare-is-already-positively-impacting-the-health-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/05\/yet-another-piece-of-evidence-that-obamacare-is-already-positively-impacting-the-health-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Piece Of Evidence That Obamacare Is Already Positively Impacting The Health Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2928\" alt=\"health-caduceus_logo_blue\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue-262x300.png\" width=\"157\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue-262x300.png 262w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue-131x150.png 131w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue-400x457.png 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue.png 481w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s new evidence to suggest that Obamacare is impacting the health industry for the better by successfully encouraging a greater emphasis on primary care. Ensuring that Americans are receiving regular preventative care is an important tenant of the health law, since it can ultimately help lower costs by preventing people from delaying medical treatment until they\u2019re already very sick.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, Americans are now spending more money on primary care physicians than they are on specialists, according to a new survey by the physician recruiting firm Merritt Hawkins. In what Merrit Hawkins\u2019 president referred to as a \u201cseismic shift\u201d in medicine, primary care doctors are now the greatest source of revenue for the hospitals where they work:<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, primary care physicians are driving more revenue on a per-doctor basis to hospitals than are specialists, according to a survey of hospital chief financial officers by physician recruiting firm Merritt Hawkins. It\u2019s expected that this result is not a fluke, but a reflection of the growing emphasis on primary care by hospitals and the health care system in general.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2013\/05\/20\/2035361\/obamacare-primary-care\/\" target=\"blank\">Yet Another Piece Of Evidence That Obamacare Is Already Positively Impacting The Health Sector | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 There\u2019s new evidence to suggest that Obamacare is impacting the health industry for the better by successfully encouraging a greater emphasis on primary care. Ensuring that Americans are receiving regular preventative care is an important tenant of the health law, since it can ultimately help lower costs by preventing people from delaying medical treatment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22],"tags":[123,1689],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}