Most Illinois Specialists Won’t Take Medicaid Patients
16th June 2011
Megan McArdle points out an inconvenient truth.
Proponents of health care reform are gnashing their teeth, while opponents grimly say “I told you so”, at the news of a study from Illinois showing that children in Medicaid/SCHIP have difficulty getting specialists to treat them….
And Illinois is a Blue State.
Obviously, this has implications for the plans to cut Medicare reimbursements. And for the success of ObamaCare, since most of the coverage expansion will come, not from the exchanges, but from extending Medicaid.
Indeed. Unless you dragoon medical people into your coercive system, like the National Health Service in Britain or whatever they call that monstrosity of government-run health care in Canada, you can’t keep cutting the pay of health care providers and expect them to work for you. The market doesn’t work that way, and we still have the remnant of a free market in health care in the U.S.