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Crisis looms: Medicare coverage doesn't pay enough, doctors refuse service, and Medicare patients can't make up the difference even if they want to.
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When asked how many doctors offer their services to Medicare patients, Rita Hatch, Medicare Counseling Coordinator at the Older Persons Action Group in Anchorage, just shook her head and said, "It's a sad list.
"We do an ongoing survey of family practice doctors and internal medicine physicians because these are the doctors that seniors generally go to," she said. She keeps the list of providers close to her chest. "I don't publish it and the reason is because I don't want to burn out those doctors on the list," she said. "If someone calls, I'll give them the names of two or three doctors on the list, so they won't all burn out at ...
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