More and more seniors are Medicare-eligible, incurring claims at a much greater rate than ever anticipated. If Medicare is funded primarily via "government" coffers, and there is more and more of a strain on "government" coffers, the government predictably seeks to keep payments to Medicare providers down.
Let's not stop there. Physicians earn a living by providing a valuable service. If they're not getting the amount they need from one population, likely - and reasonably - they'll get it from another. How do they make up this difference, and who do they make it up from? The commercial insured market? You bet.
Who would have thought, in 1965, the inception of Medicare would lead to a deepening health care crisis? The logic above suggests anyone who gave the issue a reasoned thought would have deduced it.
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