Hospitals / Doctors now refusing to take Medicare

[Dan40]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

I keep waiting for someone to mention there is no Government run health plan being discussed in the current health bill. Which may or may not even pass.

OK, with the out of the way, proceed with our regular program, Government health plan bashing.

Part of what you want to call a non-Government health INSURANCE plan, takes away the insurance industry's ability to underwrite policies. Without underwriting, the insurance industry becomes the administrators of the De Facto Government health insurance plan.
Presently, insurance is REGULATED by each state, but insurance companies CAN underwrite policies [Which happens to be 100% necessary to produce an affordable product].
Under obummer "care," the insurance industry becomes CONTROLLED, by the Federal Government, thereby making the entire health and insurance industry a "Government Plan!" The "Government Option talk was a smokescreen to hide the reality of this enormous boondoggle!

And what is your guess? For every one societal parasite that gets insurance coverage, how many PAYING Seniors will loose access to health CARE? As Doctors and Hospitals refuse to accept lower and lower reimbursement.