You don't know what you're talking about. It's the high cost of insurance premiums with high deductibles which has virtually eliminated the private family practitioner. The reason medicare pays only a portion of the Bill is that physicians don't charge consistant prices and most of them, particularly specialist, will charge what the market will bear. Not what patients can afford. So the compromise with Medicare is that though they get paid less they make up for that by volume. The elderly are, after all, the most prone segment of our society for accidents, illness and injury.
And who the hell do you think make up the bulk of the patients of those specialist? The elderly? Why? Cause they get sick and injured the most so your comment is not only contradicotry as hell, it shows you know virtually nothing about patient care. What's really driving the best internist and family practice and private practice into specialization is the strangle hold monopoly that the Private Insurance companies have on how Doctors get paid. Which is virtually nothing for primary portal care, preventative care, chronic care and basic family care which makes up the over whelming majority of patient visits.
You should actually go study up on the history of medicare and why it was created in the first place and then go study some actual statistics on patient care on patient demographics and epidemiology before you go popping off at the mouth with your ignorant "Socialist" scare tactics.
Legion was right.....ya'll don't have facts.....you have scare tactics.
What I can't understand about you obtuse right wingers is the mountains of evidence by other nations who have implemented these types of reforms who spend half of what we do, have far broader access and availability of health care and achieve vastly superior outcome then the US does.......and all you got is your "socialist" bogeyman.
It must be tough being so afraid of life that your even afraid of what has been proven to be a better way.
