Look at this way. If millions of those still insured would simply stop paying the ruthless medical insurance industry it would get their attention.
IMPROVED Medicare Single Payer Insurance would also get their attention. Have no fear the business world would definitely see a great advantage in allowing OUR tax dollars to cover our insurance costs 24/7. Always would be there no matter what.
In that case, you will have single payer, but no doctors.
You make no sense.
Of course there will be doctors and plenty of them. Doctors make plenty of money so of course there will be doctors. They will accept insurance money always. Single Payer Medicare will be much more simple thus practical.
Not if there is a single payer system! Doctors will get what the government decides to give them.
If doctors made so much money they wouldn't be going broke.
Small Business: Doctors going broke - Jan. 5, 2012
http://northeast-nc.injuryboard.com...-due-to-financial-strain.aspx?googleid=297446
The article points to a few different explanations for why private practitioners are going out of business, but the main issue that is that doctors don’t get paid primarily by their patients anymore. Instead, third-party payers, especially Medicare, reimburse health services. The result of this is that the doctors don’t get to set their own prices for what they do. Rather, insurers and health regulators pay what they deem fair or sufficient. Often, and not surprisingly, the prices set by Medicare and private insurance companies fail to even cover the cost a doctor incurs to provide a service, leaving the cost of equipment, affiliated personnel time and medications completely uncovered. Those costs -- including holding an inventory of expensive drugs, purchasing expensive medical equipment, maintaining a staff -- can be enormous.
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