So will my family let me die

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25. That's true but they won't have any elderly patients at all if Medicare goes away

The game they play now is pretty simple. They know Medicare will routinely cut 70-80% from the bllls they submit so they just inflate the bills enough so they will get what they need. It's kind of a wink wink nudge nudge thing with them and Medicare - everybody knows what's going on both parties accept it.

But if Medicare is reduced to a voucher program, the doctors won't have any patients at all because people will be going to emergency rooms once they have used up their vouchers.

I guess what I'm really getting at is that I wonder what medical practitioners consider adequate compensation. There is obviously a lot of overhead associated with running a medical office (salaries, utilities, rent, lease/purchase of equipment, even payback of student loans) but it seems to me that what they charge is sufficient to cover all that and still leave them with a decent profit. I've heard them whine too but I don't see any of them chucking it all to become greeters at Walmart.