What happens when you expand coverage without regard to costs. Like short-sighted Medicare, cutting payments to providers will be next:
Before long, they will start to employ the faulty economics of the Medicare National Bank and start cutting payments to physicians. That will only increase volume and program costs and decrease access in the long term. I’m waiting for the announcement at anytime.



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