A doctor who won't take any insurance or Medicare? Yank their license, plus imprisonment.

[Honeycombe8]

66. You think you can force people into working as doctors, taking certain things as payment?

Or else prison? Like a prison work camp? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Let's force people into working at Wal-Mart, taking Wal-Mart tokens as pay!

Let's force people into working as landscapers, taking bags of mulch as pay!

So silly. In our country, people choose what they do for a living, and they choose the method of payment they will accept. If the govt tries to force them to accept a different kind of payment, they'll simply leave that profession and do something else.

I don't know how old you are, but it wasn't that long ago that ALL doctors required payment up front, or a financing arrangement. YOU, the patient, had to deal with the ins. company, if you had insurance (many people did not have ins.). I was surprised that dr's offices started handling the ins. paperwork, and I'm not clear on when that started happening. I'm assuming they did, so that they would get paid sooner? Or as a service to the patients?

In my area, I know of no drs who don't handle the ins. claim paperwork.

If you take your car to a body shop for repairs after an accident, you are responsible for the payment. They may or may not work with your ins. company. If they do, it's as a service to you. Some body shops require you pay the bill, and you deal with your ins. company.