Any attempt to force physicians to accept government patients will backfire. The government would have to resort to police state tactics to force doctors to work against their will. Even if doctors were forced to accept Medicare, a doctor can think of dozens of excuses/reasons not to treat a patient. The relationship between a doctor not motivated to treat a patient and a patient wary of a doctor’s motivation would not be one grounded in trust, and the outcome will be predictably poor.
I honestly don’t think that that government won’t care because less access and fewer doctors accepting government patients is the easiest way to ration and reduce costs. The Dems don’t really care about old white people because they are not a part of their base. This plays right into the Leftist ‘complete lives system’ scheme.
To quote the Democrat former governor of the once great state of Colorado, Gov. Lamb : “Old people have a duty to die!” Of course he was talking about the problems with social security solvency, but the same principle applies!
The death panels so famously named by Sarah Palin will see to it that care is rationed...it won’t be pretty.