Physicians move from The USA to Canada for better life

[truedelphi]

18. THE time period you mention is exactly the time

period when I first started having a headache whenever I had to help an elderly person find a doctor wh would accept MediCare. Before that time, doctors who accepted MediCare were plentiful as Congress had not yet chopped payments down.


Also, malpractice fees were going through the roof. And also, regular insurers were refusing to offer the most basic coverage for life threatening situations, so decent doctors were becoming upset by how they were hamstrung in treating their patients.

I remember one radio broadcast on KPFA about a young boy, fully insured, who
needed a $ 10,000 treatment to save his leg. But the Big Insurer found some loophole to avoid paying for saving the leg. (He might have kept the leg, but it would never work right without that treatment, and the treatment had to be offered then, not down the line.)