Punishment for Doctors not accepting Medicare/Medicaid patients (extremist, examples, 2013)

[summers73]

Originally Posted by ray1945

I did not have the option of dumping them and I did my best to have a positive impact on their lives.

Sounds like you regret your inability to do so.

(in before you backpeddle with "no, I meant that I rather like teaching to them")

[Little-Acorn]

Punishment for Doctors not accepting Medicare/Medicaid patients


So many liberals want government to be dictating everything we should and should not do.

As some Germans used to say, "Everything that is not forbidden, is compulsory!"

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by summers73

Sounds like you regret your inability to do so.

(in before you backpeddle with "no, I meant that I rather like teaching to them")

Sorry, pal. You don't get to attempt to read her mind and then respond with your "in before" mantra.

[nicet4]

Originally Posted by T-310

Nothing. Private practice doctors have the right to refuse service to those who can't pay.

Let's extend this to poor people living on food stamps.

Eating is a constitutional moral right.

Force restaurants to accept a 30% payment for food they sell to people with EBT cards.

It's simple, we could eliminate hunger in one easy step.

If a restaurant offers a filet Mignon with baked potato and salad as sides for $34.50 why not force the restaurants to sell this for $10.35?

//sarcasm off

[bigskydude]

Originally Posted by summers73

Doctors have a choice of getting a medical license that is not government endorsed?

Why not just pay more for the Medicare doctor instead of giving them a tax break? It seems like you're picking winners and losers and making the tax code even more complicated than it already is. What about under the table cash payments?

I was thinking more in line with a donkey, two goats, and 5 fryer hens ...

[ray1945]

Originally Posted by summers73

Sounds like you regret your inability to do so.

(in before you backpeddle with "no, I meant that I rather like teaching to them")

That whoosh! you hear is my point flying right over your head....

[monkeywrenching]

Originally Posted by GoldenZephyr

Interesting concept, if they accept cash only would be fine, but income would have to be taxed at the maximum marginal rate, whereas income through government insurance would be taxed at a flat rate, say 15%. Sort of provides an incentive and effectively ups the net reimbursement.

Again, if you want to profit via a government licencing monopoly, then you have to take it both ways.

that is if they declare it all. lots of things can happen when you take cash only.

[summers73]

Originally Posted by Katiana

Sorry, pal. You don't get to attempt to read her mind and then respond with your "in before" mantra.

Sorry, you don't get to interject into our conversation.

The teacher is definitely resentful that he/she can't reject students to be taught.

[summers73]

Originally Posted by bigskydude

I was thinking more in line with a donkey, two goats, and 5 fryer hens ...

Or how about untraceable bitcoins?

[summers73]

6 in favor of executing healers. Shame these double digit IQ folks vote at all.