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0 pointsbrianwawok9y ago0 comments

One problem on top of the getting it passed part..

Many doctors don't take Medicare. Over a situation where say there are 3 doctors for a specialty in a town... the two better ones do not take it, and the new less good one will take it. So if that flat answer is let everyone take medicare, I think there are some serious quality of care problems.

(I have no better solution though, every angle seems bad).

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gnaritas9y ago· 3 in thread

They would immediately start taking Medicare when nearly all available patients moved to it. They can only afford to not take it now because other customers are available.

importantbrian9y ago

This. Plus that's not really different than the situation now. Not every doctor takes my employer offered plan either.

DrScump9y ago

If we hit a point where nearly all people were on Medicare, we'd be bankrupt anyway.

But continuing with your theoretical environment: no, they would consider adding new patients until they had a critical mass and then stop accepting new patients.

gnaritas9y ago

> If we hit a point where nearly all people were on Medicare, we'd be bankrupt anyway.

No we wouldn't, we'd be in a much better position and we'd be paying much less for healthcare. Medicare has far less overhead than private insurance and it'd be the logical move to establish a far more effective and cheaper system of socialized medicine.

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