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H.R. 1384, To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove limiting charges under the Medicare Program for non-participating physicians with beneficiary notice and to preempt State laws that prohibit balance billing (1 comment ↓)
H.R. 1384 would amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove limiting charges under the Medicare Program for non-participating physicians with beneficiary notice and to preempt State laws that prohibit balance billing.
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William J Rand, MD
March 31, 2009, 1:21pm (report abuse)This is an excellent bill that returns Medicare to the original intent of the legislation. Medicare was intended to be a partial assist to the Medicare beneficiary, not the sole source for funding all of the medical and surgical care for every person in the Medicare group.
This bill allows individual patients to pay more for an additional level of care when the patient deems that it is worth it to pay more. There will always be doctors who will accept Medicare in full. But when excellence is rewarded, excellence exists.
If funding the system is open only to government funding and no outside funding is possible, the limits government will have to place on senior citizen health care will inevitably lead to progressively lower fees and rationing of care.
This bill allows Medicare patients to reward an additional level of care with an additional level of reimbursement with no additional cost to the government.