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

[moriah]

142. I was referred to one like that for psychiatric care, because they had an opening.

I had insurance, they did not take any insurance whatsoever and charged a ton. Hence, they had plenty of openings.

The person who referred me? The psychiatrist at the hospital I was receiving outpatient therapy with, under insurance.

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Yes, my insurance could have reimbursed me the money. But I didn't have the money and it would have taken a long time to get the reimbursement back. Hence, I waited until a doctor did have an opening and stayed longer in their outpatient program for medication management.

If the doctor was willing to go through the process of filing his billings himself and accepting the negotiated rates, he probably would have had more clients. But what he had were clients, instead, who could afford to get rushed in. I couldn't.

Yes, this is a problem. I wouldn't say yank their licenses, but maybe create a tax penalty? It made it where the cost of my care cost my private insurance more since I stayed in-network -- as I had no other choice. And I wasn't below the poverty line by any stretch, nor part of Romney's "47%".