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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: skinowski who wrote (25518)3/27/2013 6:40:25 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
Usually, providers cannot charge them for things which are normally covered - but in their case denied - by Medicare. This represents enforced rationing, all the way.

I looked up the Medicare denial codes, they're all about the paperwork, not about the validity of the treatment, in which case it makes sense to disallow payment by the patient. Nothing in those to suggest rationing. Surely if they started rationing they would have to allow the provider to provide and the patient to pay.
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