Reply #51: I've watched doctors refuse to take on Medicare patients for a decade now. [View All]

[freshwest]

The GOP worked ceaselessly during the Clinton years to strip Medicare coverage in closed door sessions so that by the time Dubya got in some areas you were denied up to the point of death on the doorstep of hospitals. Different areas of the country have different situations. Bush slashed Medicaid brutally when he got in. Nothing short of a progressive majority in the Congress will change any of this. They write the laws, they cut the funding. Get out and vote, toss the tea party and the GOP out, or lose everything.