[freespirited]

When docs start refusing Medicare patients because they cant afford to see them, we’ll see more people than ever using the emergency room as their primary care physician.

Law of Unintended Consequences. Libs will never get it.

[BillM]

Here in Canada our socialized system started around 1970. As expected many doctors started to restrict services to people on the public insurance system because the reimbursements were too low. This led to the Canada Health Act in 1984 where the entire medical system was enslaved. Billing other than to the government became illegal for both the patient and the doctor. That is why it can take a year to see a specialist today and the chances of that specialist or generalist being trained in Canada or the US is very low. It's a bonus if they even speak broken English.