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

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200. I am not surprised that no one responded to your post. It goes against the narrative of some DUERS.

You relative faces the reality of a private medical practice. Dentists and doctors come out of school with large bills for education. If they set up a private practice, they have large bills for equipment like x-ray equipment, examination tables, tools, and so forth. Then they have salaries of office personnel and assistants. If the practice is booming and the client base pays their bills, the practice makes a profit. If clients don't pay, or if the practice gets lots of people paying at reduced rates, the practice struggles to break even. That is the reality.

What can realistically be done about the problem. First, medical and dental educations should be free, paid for by the government. Medical students can chose to opt out of the free training and the agreements that follow after that free training. Once done with medical or dental school, new doctors or dentists go work at public clinics for 7 years, free from malpractice insurance payments and using equipment paid for by the federal government, office staff paid for by the government and assistants paid by the government. In return, the doctors treat patients for a fixed rate paid by the government. This idea has some holes and I am sure the naysayers will find them, but a system built like this one must be put into place if the issue of health care providers economic well being and affordable health care for all americans is to become an everyday reality.