“Speaking of Grayson, I bet he’s already considering a law requiring doctors to accept Medicare patients.”
Do we know whether or not this isn’t something already buried in the bill?
Doctors are paid a pittance by Medicaid and Medicare and many are already refusing to take either. If it happens, it’s going to cause a greater shortage of doctors, especially primary care...and so the rationing of care begins. My primary care doc was all for Obamacare, especially for the uninsured. I wonder how she’s going to feel when she figures out she’s about to become a government employee.
When I retired from the Air Force in 1996 I was eligible for the government insurance program called TRICARE. Unfortunately, after about six months of coverage I cancelled it. None of the doctors in town would accept it because the limits were too low and the government was too slow to pay. I suspect that the same thing is going to happen to Medicare and Medicaid.