Mobile Medical Professionals Watch Healthcare Legislation

It's a busy Sunday for doctors at Greater Mobile Urgent Care. There's a heavy number of patients and heavy legislation that could affect their livelihoods.

“You're trying to overhaul all of healthcare in a year, that would be like trying to change the military or an education system, I don't think that's wise, you need to take time and do in a stepwise fashion,” says Dr. Darren Waters. He says he feels the reform package is being moved too quickly into becoming law. With the bill being in such preliminary stages it's hard for doctors to say how this bill will affect them in the coming years if it is passed. Warren says, no matter the outcome, patients are the top concern.

“We can do the scans, the blood work that we need to do whatever's best for our patients we need to make sure we're able to do,” says Waters. Some in the medical field say the legislation will affect doctors more than others in their business.

“I don't think it'll affect the middle level as much as it'll I think the doctors and the pa's will be affected more so than the nurses or other nursing staff,” says clinical director Stacy Lewis.
Doctor Waters says the legislation fails to address a top caregiver concern: tort reform.

“I think you need to look at every aspect of health care and health reform and that's one part I don't think we've given much emphasis on,” says Dr. Waters.