doctors get short changed by medicare and medicaid already to the point that only young, desperate doctors will take on new patents using them. what happens when most people are using the government option? do the doctors just go bankrupt? > buy vaccines for 30$ per > with overhead from storage and paying salaries you break even at $45 per > charge $60 per > insurance companies will negotiate this down a little but never below the $45 > medicare reimburses at $27 per; not even enough to cover the base cost of buying it those are real numbers, by the way, my in-laws are physicians and told me that exact story because i was curious why they don't take medicare or medicaid patients. i, incorrectly, assumed they were being foolish and leaving money on the table and should have been sucking the government teat. it turned out i was wrong and it was one of the rare smart financial decisions they made in their life. we have a doctor shortage as is in this country. it's long, hard, and expensive to become a doctor. the only reward is after struggling two thirds of their life, they finally pay off all their debts and can spend their last 25 years actually making money and reaping the benefits. if your plan is to just treat them like slaves and force them to work, they'll just go do something else. and if you don't believe me, look at canada's doctors per capita compared to the us's. they all come here because they know we pay better.
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