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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (36272)	4/29/2014 6:57:06 PM
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I imagine medical providers do the same...ie if they can get higher paying customers they will give them priority, but in lieu of that they will take whatever they can get..... Even if your rationale were valid, it would apply even less to primary care doctors than to airlines, which is what this discussion is about. Primary care doctors, unless perhaps if they are just starting out in private practice, do not have empty slots. There aren't enough of them to go around. If they are fully booked already, the choice to take on a new patient who doesn't pay his way vs time off to play golf or enjoy their kids is not a tough one. There is no incentive to take on yet another Medicaid patient. It's like any pro bono work. Professionals will usually do some. They do out of a sense of obligation to give back or do it for cases that they find interesting or because is expected in their social set or they want accolades for their charity work. They don't do it because it makes financial sense. Your comparison with airline seats is somewhat more apt wrt use of equipment like a CT scanner but it doesn't work at all with PCP's.

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