John Barrasso: “Doctors will tell you the biggest deadbeat when it comes to paying for health care is the Federal Government. It is…”

“Doctors will tell you the biggest deadbeat when it comes to paying for health care is the Federal Government. It is Washington. More and more of my colleagues are opting out... from taking care of Medicare patients because what they get reimbursed is so limited that it does not keep up with the growing cost of liability insurance, the mandates on them in terms of the expenses of running a business, and they try to provide health care for all their employees. Item after item, those costs go up. But what the government continues to pay for taking care of patients on Medicare, which is an expanding group of people, is shrinking. Think about how Washington works and does not get it. Patients around the country on Medicare understand they are having a hard time finding a doctor.”