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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (4502)	2/14/2008 3:24:20 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I don't think your doctor can legally take any extra money you may offer. When I first started looking at Medicare maybe five years before my time, that was the case. Now you are allowed to sign special contracts with doctors outside of Medicare but I don't know the particulars. You'll find that you won't be short changed on services, the more services they do or have done to you the more money they get from Medicare... Where you get short-changed is the amount of time they spend with you. They have to crank the patients through to survive on what Medicare pays. My previous doctor accepted no insurance. We spent all the time we needed and I paid full freight. It was wonderful.