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Under existing insurance plans can you see any doctor you want and be fully covered? Generally not. At least any plan I was under. If your doctor was out of plan you paid more.
I implore all of you to read this as just one example of how little you know and how much you're being bullcrapped by people on these boards ; As it relates to this thread item number 5 should be of particular interest:
Please do not listen to the stupid among you who are advantaged and enjoying Union "collectively" negotiated perks while claiming to be individualist independents. They are the biggest "train driving" hypocrites of all.
More licensing and regulation and entry fees...yeah...the State-imposed shortage would get worse.
But if you found a doctor under a rock somewhere you could rest easy knowing a bureaucrat in D.C. stamped a paper that is housed in a filing cabinet somewhere.
Do I get to keep my Doctor if I move to another country?
Jesus.. I don´t see how Right wingers are so attached to their Doctor?
I have had 5 or 6 Doctors.. but, again I moved all over the country.. so I got another Doctor. If I did not liked him/her, I would choose another. SIMPLE.
Do I get to keep my Doctor if I move to another country?
Jesus.. I don´t see how Right wingers are so attached to their Doctor?
I have had 5 or 6 Doctors.. but, again I moved all over the country.. so I got another Doctor. If I did not liked him/her, I would choose another. SIMPLE.
They aren't. It is a dumb meme about choice even though you currently often don't always have that choice under our existing system .
Under a single-payer, government run universal healthcare program in America, would patients get to keep their doctors, this is a serious question.
While the rest of the developed world has Universal Healthcare, no two do it the same way. Some countries rely completely on Private ( Insurance) Pay. Some rely on Single Payer. Most are a mixed bag.
Of those that rely on Single Payer, no two countries do it the same way.
It is increasingly common for people to maintain Supplimental Plans to pay for that which the Single Payer System does not, no diff than Medicarein the US.
Medicare is the closest thing the US has to Single Payer and it does not cover everything. No MD is required to accept Medicare Patients. While most do, most practices tend to cap the number of Medicare patients they have.
Nothing has ever prevented medical practices in the US from opting in/ out of public and/ or private insurance plans. There has never been certainty that one can keep their doctor. This was the case before the ACA and remains the case today, regardless of Obama’s former blah- blah.
Yes, unless your doctor is willing to work for free, he has no choice except to bill the single payer. Single payer means single payer, not more than one payor.
Not all universal healthcare systems are single payor though.
In reality though, some concierge medical groups/practices in Canada manage to escape some targeting and manage to exist:
Denmark does. She had to wait 3 years for surgery.
That must be why they live longer than we do and are much happier (by any measure).....
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