I take both Medicare and Medicaid
But if Forced to do si, I would just quit
Do you recall in the 1980s when Massachusetts made participation in Medicare and Medicaid a requirement for licensure?
Directive 10-296
Point Two. All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.
Roger that. I was “forced” to enroll when I hit 65 or lose my SS bennies. I would much rather have had the choice to stay with my retirement insurance even though it cost me more. The coverage was better and at least the docs got paid more than medicare pays them. I couldn’t believe how little they paid out for my back surgery against what was submitted for payment. Guess that’s why the docs submitted such high amounts. Hopefully they’ll take me back since I’m having some issues again. LOL! And here I just thought they didn’t like ME. (Keep your doctor/health plan if you like them! NOT!)
In a free society if you try to compel me to do anything, I will resist. You should too.
Whoops. Maybe it is no longer a free society. Maybe government CAN compel me. America has been transformed. Congratulations for letting it just happen. What does it matter now?
“I take both Medicare and Medicaid”
As things stand today, forcing doctors to take less than the cost of care (that you choose to provide) as compensation for services is merely incrementally less outrageous than removing a doctors choice in who they provide care to at whatever compensation schedule the government decides to pay.
The uncomfortable point is that somehow medicare/medicaid is palatable to many conservatives, but this logical incremental step further in government over-reach is completely outrageous.
We should already be revolting in the streets - before it got to this point!
Thus is the insidious nature of socialism - we’re all socialists now.