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Half of Doctors Listed as Serving Medicaid Patients Are Unavailable, Investigation Finds
New York Times ^ | December 8, 2014 | by ROBERT PEAR

Posted on 12/09/2014 12:53:40 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When it costs a doc $65 to see a patient and he only gets reimbursed $42 by medicaid.....

How does that math work for ANYONE?


21 posted on 12/09/2014 2:04:34 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: colorado tanker

Oh... they understand it just fine. They are just too stupid to realize that their pie-in-the-sky dreams can’t change reality.


22 posted on 12/09/2014 2:07:08 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

You are correct. Licensure in the future will imply taking medicare/medicaid, OR ELSE!


23 posted on 12/09/2014 3:07:45 PM PST by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: clee1
"When it costs a doc $65 to see a patient and he only gets reimbursed $42 by medicaid....."

He (or, as is more likely in 2014, she) closes the door, and goes fishing. Or spends time with the kids. Or, really, practically anything.

24 posted on 12/09/2014 4:33:08 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Vendome
If they were clear-thinking, ALL doctors would make themselves "unavailable".
25 posted on 12/10/2014 12:04:46 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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