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In reply to the discussion: my doctor and health care. [View all]DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)2. glad it's working.
my friend has been on medicare for almost 6 months. 2 of her docs don't take medicare. one is her therapist. my friend had to stop seeing her because she can't afford to pay $150 a visit. the therapist has been treating her for years and knows she has money problems. one would think she would have worked out a sliding scale for my friend.
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I'm a doctor too. I don't get Drs who are opposed to patients getting care.
Pinkflamingo
Nov 2013
#1
it was not obama that did not go all the way. we gotta remember what exactly happened way back when
seabeyond
Nov 2013
#17
Oregon seems to have figured it out. They enrolled 50,000 people into Medicaid while the
jtuck004
Nov 2013
#29
But that really shows why states needed to form their own marketplace.
Drunken Irishman
Nov 2013
#34
Actually two states. But the principal is the same. Without all the overhead that the ACA
jtuck004
Nov 2013
#35
I expect yet more doctors will start refusing Medicare patients. Isn't $700b coming from provider
Flatulo
Nov 2013
#25