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11. Are you going to require doctors to accept that Medicare?

Reply to area51 (Reply #9)

Fri Dec 27, 2019, 05:28 AM

Dec 2019

They aren't required to now. Many don't. If it's not legally required -- for that matter if it's not legally forbidden to surplus charge or insure privately -- you're still going to have in and out of network problems.

The political problem with this is that when you talk about outlawing private insurance, public support drops to about 25%.

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Bingo! Quemado Dec 2019 #6

Here's hoping that changes someday sandensea Dec 2019 #7

I will say it again: if health insurance companies gave a damn about how they disburse their money Hekate Dec 2019 #4

somebody has to pay for all the pretty buildings ... Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2019 #8

Oh we have clout ck4829 Dec 2019 #10

The problem in US health care is price discovery Recursion Dec 2019 #5

The only reason we have this in/out of network BS is the insurance cos., area51 Dec 2019 #9

Are you going to require doctors to accept that Medicare? Recursion Dec 2019 #11