Obamacare failure ratings among physicians, while still high, are dropping.
So says an analysis by The Medicus firm, a physician staffing company.
Last year, according to an article in Forbes magazine, Medicus asked physicians to give the Affordable Care Act a grade, in the usual A-F range, and 22 percent said "F."
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This time around, that number dropped to 16 percent.
Physicians have complained that the act increased the number of patients to clinics without offering clinics any way to handle the increasing demand for services. Yet a recent study published in BenefitsPro found just the opposite—that clinics have staffed up and are fairly seamlessly integrating new patients into their practice.
The Medicus study reported that 83 percent of responding physicians indicated with a passing grade that they felt the act was working. About three in 10 gave the reform law a C grade.
Last year, 77 percent gave the act a passing grade, and in 2013, it was 70 percent.
"The ACA is not as much of an intimidating, unknown entity, and doctors aren't feeling as alarmed as they were when the sizable legislation was passed into law," Jim Stone, president of The Medicus Firm, told Forbes.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
