If they cut some doctor's salary by 5% for accepting Medicare, won't that lead to rationing?

It is actually worse than that.

This is done on an annual basis, so that the top 10% each year will get their pay docked.

Assume for a moment that the doctors who get their pay docked will take fewer medicare patients to avoid being docked.

Each year a new pool of doctors will take fewer medicare patients, so that eventually no doctors may be willing to take medicare patients.

The only alternative is to take as many medicare patients as possible, cut the doctor's cost of treating each medicare patient (i.e., reduce the quality of care), and hope volume makes up for the 5% deduction.

There is already rationing of many, not just seniors. Many doctors refuse anyone with any type of medicare. That surely explains it, doesn't it?

I have heard seniors and younger people alike, and their complaints are basically the same.

EDIT: The doctors who will accept medicare, they are true doctors, not just money makers.. but... even they can handle only a certain amount of patients.

Why is that bill alive? More like... why was it ever allowed?

But the doctors who accept patients who don't have to pay will have so many more patients than those who don't, that it won't matter. That's the way it works in Australia. We call it bulk billing. The doctors get a bit less for treating those patients, but more of them present for treatment. There are doctors who will not accept those patients, but by saying you will not help those who can't afford it, you really lose some of your credibility as a doctor, don't you?

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