[Peace-discuss] on the turning away - alias smith and keynes

[E. Wayne Johnson]

"...is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away?" - d. gilmour

Of course, my interpretation is that there "ain't enough doctors".

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/768763?src=mpnews&spon=34 
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Nearly a third of office-based physicians declined to accept new 
Medicaid patients last year, according to a new analysis of government 
survey data published in the August issue of Health Affairs.

Access to care proved substantially less difficult for new patients 
covered by Medicare and private insurance, who faced rejection rates of 
17% and 18%, respectively.

Author Sandra Decker, PhD, an economist at the National Center for 
Health Statistics of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
found that acceptance rates of new Medicaid patients varied widely on a 
state-by-state basis, with a low of 40.4% in New Jersey and a high of 
99.3% in Wyoming. Acceptance rates generally were higher in states with 
higher Medicaid fee-for-services rates, expressed as a percentage of 
Medicare's rates in 2008. Medicaid rates in Wyoming in 2008, for 
example, were close to 150% of Medicare's — the nation's highest. 
Conversely, New Jersey's Medicaid rates were dead last, at 37% of Medicare

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/768763?src=mpnews&spon=34 
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