[Doghouse Riley]

This article is a well-written, eloquent plea for more of my tax money.

Forget it.

Unless we get a socialist program in which MD's are required to participate or face prosecution, Dr. Halderman is welcome to decline these patients.

As long as taxpayer money is funding Care/Caid I want the payments to providers set aggressively low.

[Mom MD]

then be prepared to pay the rest of the cost yourself - in higher insurance premiums, higher costs of medications and hospitalizations for everyone else

And while your at it, do you want the quality of care to be aggressively low as well? That is what you are saying if you want the best in practice to decline taking medicare/medicaid - only those that are desperate for patients (likely the more marginal providers) will end up seeing these patients