And she’ll save a boat load of money (if not already) by not having to employee 3-4 people (depending on the size of her practice) billing and rebilling and rebilling and rebilling the insurance companies (medicare is the absolute worst)and then sending her patients a bill and hoping that that the payment is received in posted in time to pay her employees.
As some of the pp have said, it won’t be those with money who can’t access healthcare. It will becoming increasingly difficult for those dependent on the government to access same the level of care. Currently, hospitals and physicians are able to offset some of their costs of the indigient and government dependents because patients who pay their bills and insurance providers. I suspect that before too long, in-patient care facilities will be following suit of the cash based physicians.
There was a discussion on a thread a while back and it was mentioned how health care costs started escalating when government introduced medicare/medicaid. Prior to that there was no need for health insurance because doctors were paid by their patients at time of service. Doctors also have been known to bartered services with patients.