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Originally Posted by lynchjm24
Do a little research. It's already happening. Many others are going their own way to concierge care and don't see Medicare and Medicaid patients.
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...and, many also avoid working with private insurance companies. Instead, they print out a list of the procedures completed, make you pay, and then make the patient deal with the insurance company.
If you are in private practice, you can turn away whoever you want and try to collect whatever you want. If you are a good enough business person (which includes choosing the right location and discipline to practice in), you can turn away medicaid, medicare, or private insurance and still earn very well.
What does that have to do with doctors leaving the profession? If anything, it indicates displeasure with dealing with the beauracracy of the current state of healthcare coverage.