“What good does it do to have Medicare if the doctors don’t accept it?”
That precisely will be the problem if reimbursements are cut: “I think most docs are quite comfortable working for less as part of their social responsibility, for a portion of their practice . . . But when reimbursement rates fall below your actual cost of delivering the service, you just can’t do it.”
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