[cherry]

health care providers will not stiff the Medicaid or Medicare patients...I think its illegal.....but they won't be paid and that means that they must charge we premium payers more and more....OR it might mean fewer Medicaid/Medicare patients taken on as clients...

already for profit hospitals are limiting who they will admit....

[KYGrandma]

Be thankful your dtr is on some type of healthcare. My unemployed son has no health care and cannot use Medicade or the “free” clinics. They say he can work and won’t accept him. He plans on going back to school, and use the university health clinic. And the only financial help he will get for school are loans. So much for the priviledged caucasian male. We are retired and I lost my job when my son lost his(same co.).

[businessprofessor]

If you are successful in suing a hospital for malpractice, Medicare will claim part of your judgment if you do not provide for Medicare reimbursement in the lawsuit.

Subrogation will still occur under the new policy. However, Medicare will be more active in denying payment when no lawsuit is filed for the specified medical procedures.