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

To: i-node who wrote (12976)	1/9/2010 11:55:33 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

It's still not clear to me what they mean by "Medicare patients." I posted about this once before but no one responded. Effectively, "Medicare patients" could mean everyone over 65 except those going to providers that don't take any Medicare patients. The only legal way to avoid Medicare patients is to accept no new ones and wait for the ones to cycle out, seems to me. You can't just "fire" all the ones you already have. Or can you? And is there a difference between hospitals and doctors in business for themselves in the rules for accepting patients? Clearly an emergency room can't refuse a Medicare patient. Then, when that patient needs to stay overnight, can the hospital say no? Wouldn't think so. I find this talk strange. Effectively it's age discrimination, taken broadly. Surely that wouldn't pass muster with the courts. I don't get it.