Reply #8: Doctors recently told me Medicare pays so quick...quicker than private plans,

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they now PREFER billing to Medicare!

Doctors who have their heads in the long-past Private Insurance "gold mine", have an outdated, unrealistic view of who ACTUALLY "pays," and who doesn't pay their Rent and salaries ON TIME. Instead, they live in dreams of the rosey past when Private Plans paid without delay for office visits and procedures. The good old days...

Medicare booklets MAY TRY and encourage Medicare recipients to seek Private Plans, but MOST Aged and Disabled recipients HAVE Pre-existing Conditions), and WOULDN'T qualify for Private Insurance for at least ONE YEAR of NON-treatment of their condition(s)...IF they qualify at all.

Medicare may be TRYING to encourage coverage elsewhere, but most recipients BARELY afford current co-pays on doctor visits and meds. And most have no substantial "nest egg" to pay hundreds MORE per month for "gap" coverage.

That the "System" is even attempting to drive Medicare recipients in droves to Private Plans is a Repug "wet-dream." Besides, Dems will soon have control of the House...and the "big House" soon...so dream on, Pugs...dream on.