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SCantiGOP

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2. Me too

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 15, 2024, 10:34 AM

Nov 15

I haven’t encountered a practice that doesn’t take Medicare for the 5 years I’ve been under the program.
I think it is medicaid that is having a problem with the number of providers that participate.

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Cutting Medicare to Save It--and this from the Current Administration [View all] SorellaLaBefana Nov 15 OP

I have zero trouble finding doctors gab13by13 Nov 15 #1

Me too SCantiGOP Nov 15 #2

The government has been cutting physician reimbursement rates for years. But still, the average physician Silent Type Nov 15 #3

The better way to cut Medicare costs is to get rid of Advantage programs that cost the government more per person. Lonestarblue Nov 15 #4

Unfortunately, the only significant upgrades to our healthcare finance system since 1990s -- ACA, drug plans, Medicaid Silent Type Nov 15 #5

We are the only (overly)Developed Nation without a functional System of National Health Care SorellaLaBefana Nov 15 #6

I get it, but we'll be sitting here 20 years from debating the same thing with no progress. Silent Type Nov 15 #7