And Still More on Health Care Disinvestment

A primary care physician explains his decision to drop out of Medicare:

[T]he service won’t pay for phone consultations, won’t pay for email consultations, barely pays for an office visit, and does not pay nearly enough to cover a house call.

This is also bad for me as a patient; since it is difficult for my doctor to deal with me by email or phone, I must spend time going to his office. It is also never wise to be an undesirable customer of any business -- if they have a choice, they won't see you. And if they have no choice? Well, one of life's fundamental rules is that you would rather not have people sorry to see you, especially when your life, health, or money is in their hands.

Plus:

Medicare has too many regulations and rules; we can’t understand a lot of them, and frankly, Medicare doesn’t seem to understand them most of the time either.  If I would accept Medicare, then they have the right to audit our notes and then fine us for non-compliance for infractions that are not readily clear. Their external auditors get paid for every infraction they find which means the temptations for fining doctors are irresistible.

There is more good and thoughtful stuff. Read it all.

Thanks to Instapundit.