Hospital Crisis and Obamacare

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Acer wrote:
"Yet Medicaid has never been especially popular."

I wonder why...oh, here's the answer! "Medicaid beneficiaries have limited means, and their low incomes usually translate into below-average political influence."


Nobody who's got money is a fan of Medicaid until Mother runs out of money but still needs another 3 years of nursing home care.

While what you say is partially true, there is far worse. Medicaid patients will sue doctors more often and for more frivolous reasons. Thus, as a doctor, you lose money on attending a medicaid patient AND you get sue by them more often. Why would any physician want to accept medicaid patients?