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

To: Lane3 who wrote (36289)	4/29/2014 7:08:04 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

>> 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. This is a really good point. In the case of most doctors -- but particularly primary care -- it is a question of who are you going to cut -- BCBS patients or Medicaids. And that is a no brainer. I was recently looking for a new doctor and when I called and asked, "Is he taking new patients?" the first question I got was, "You're not on Medicaid or anything, right?" This was a doctor I used to do work for back in the 90s, and at the time they were buried in Medicaid patients.