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From: LindyBill7/12/2009 5:16:20 PM
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You know what is going to happen. The Gov will make it illegal not to accept Medicare.

A PRIMARY-CARE PROVIDER'S DILEMMA: The decision to opt out of Medicare.

We opted out of Medicare because the service won't pay for phone consultations, won't pay for email consultations, barely pays for an office visit, and does not pay nearly enough to cover a house call.

All of these services are critical to our medical practice. Medicare would require us to hire too many staff, as well as require us to do too much paper work and administration. I cannot afford to invest in either and still manage to operate in the black. Medicare has too many regulations and rules; we can't understand a lot of them, and frankly, Medicare doesn't seem to understand them most of the time either.

And yet if you make a mistake, you face possible criminal prosecution. facebook.com
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