Posted
5/18/2010 06:15:00 PM
by Douglas
You think health insurance is expensive now, just wait 'till it's
free!Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.
Two years after a survey found nearly half of Texas doctors weren't taking some new Medicare patients, new data shows 100 to 200 a year are now ending all involvement with the program. Before 2007, the number of doctors opting out averaged less than a handful a year.
“This new data shows the Medicare system is beginning to implode,” said Dr. Susan Bailey, president of the Texas Medical Association.
Yeah, well, get in line. We're out of money, folks. LBJ's "Great Society" was a whole lot greater when there was more young people to pay for it.