no longer accepts Medicare patients. It has to do with low reimbursement rates. I don't think there is anyway to legally force a doctor to accept low reimbursement patients.

His point - he makes less money overall but without all the aggravation of dealing with the government regarding the payments. In his mind, the cost to actually receive those low payments makes it not worth it.

fewer people just to handle the paperwork.

Almost all residents are paid by medicare. We could ask them to sign an agreement to accept medicare patients or forego being paid during their 3-8 years of residency after medical school.

My doctor said I'd be kept but no one else is being accepted.

Practice is closed to Medicare patients as the doctor doesn't feel he is getting paid enough money for his work.

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It is time to have the government train up and coming doctors with the requirement that they serve the underclass for a time
But then the doctors will have a glut of providers of their services and their income will go down. Better to let people suffer, right?
Capitalism, what an excuse for a monetary system

Is that not their right? Is there something about doctors that gives them less freedom than any other Americans? That dictates to them how they must conduct their business?

What is it that I have a need and therefor you must meet that need? If I run out of gas, is a service station obliged to fill up my tank whether or not I can pay for the gas, meely because I need it? If I say to him that I need the gas because I am on an errand of desperate urgency, does that outweigh his right to make a living by selling gas?

And yet we are saying in two threads here that doctors in private practice are evil if they say that they need to be paid adequately for their services. We are saying that they do not have the right to determine for themselves what constitutes adequate payment. We say that without knowing what their costs are for rent, utilities, staff, supplies, etc... We demand that they treat all patients regardless of how much or how little they get paid for doing so.

We do not make that demand of any other business. Only of doctors,

Can they charge you $10 per gallon, because they know your tank is empty? Can a grocery store sell you a $20 gallon of milk because they know you have children?

Hotels triple their rates when big events are in town, and sometimes increase their rates tenfold. No one seems to get very excited about that, although I think the practice is despicable.

Gasoline price increases are routinely blamed on "increased demand," which is simply saying that people have become willing to pay more. An increase in demand neither requires or justifies gasoline producers raising prices, it simply permits them to do so and "increased demand" is absolutely never challenged as a reason for the increase in prices. Not by the media, and not by any liberal blogger than I have ever encountered.

Nor have I ever encountered any liberal blogger complaining about grossly increased hotel rates on holiday weekends.

We only complain when doctors refuse to accept reduced payment for their services.

You dodged milk, wonder why? If gas prices increase beyond a reasonable amount, there will be investigation into gouging. They are not free to charge whatever they want, which is the question I asked.

Medical prices are all over the place with no logical explanations and now some doctors want discriminate based on how they are getting paid, which is a pretty good surrogate for other things. I expect some doctors are now going to develop deeply held religious beliefs as well.

that our,"kids" are learning and are successful in the sociology of the classroom, and of the school, which equates to society.

Being in the, "business of," doctoring, and teaching, are both common to - the well being and future of the American people which is the greatest part of the compensation.

A contract is a contract; to do what ever it takes. ACA has a contract with BCBS of TX. BCBS of TX has a contract with the doctor and with me since it sent me the healthcare card.

No ONE is relieved of their responsibilities. And the story gets around fast!

There are others in society that work for the well being and future of a better tomorrow. The mission of ACA is to provide medical care so that everyone is served get healthier as the time goes by. Where does greed come in to the mission of healthcare and oaths of service and success?