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Originally Posted by Swaggs
...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.
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Doctors don't typically leave health plans because of administration issues. They leave because they don't want to get paid the discounted negotiated rates and they have patients who can pay.
A single payer system will drive down reimbursements. Leading to:
A - Good doctors only treating rich people in special deals
B - Mediocre doctors driven out of practice
Spend some time looking at the balance sheets of hospitals. They make AIG look good.
I've spent the last 7 years immersed in pricing health insurance. I've seen every article, every opinion, every study. A single payer system will be an unmitigated disaster. Higher cost lower quality. You can take that to the bank.