Quantum Windbag
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Can you imagine a business being run where the prices are being fixed as what the customers want to pay, and not what it cost them to provide the service, or manufacture the product.
I wonder how many doctors there are going to be if they keep this up.
Justice Department declares war on doctors - CSMonitor.com
This means the government believes it has the right to force doctors to accept Medicare/Medicaid and/ or insurance pricing, and that it will work to send anyone who tries to opt out of accepting it to prison. This is another example of a badly written law being applied to a situation it should not cover in the first place.
I wonder how many doctors there are going to be if they keep this up.
The second reason this is a landmark case is that the Justice Department has unambiguously stated that refusal to accept government price controls is a form of illegal price fixing.
Whats more, the Antitrust Division has linked a refusal to accept government price controls with a refusal to accept a private insurance companys contract offer. This lives little doubt that antitrust regulators consider insurance party contracts the equivalent of government price controls and physicians and patients have no choice but to accept them.
Justice Department declares war on doctors - CSMonitor.com
This means the government believes it has the right to force doctors to accept Medicare/Medicaid and/ or insurance pricing, and that it will work to send anyone who tries to opt out of accepting it to prison. This is another example of a badly written law being applied to a situation it should not cover in the first place.