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Reader questions: No, the health-care bill does not keep you from paying money in exchange for services

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 12:07 EDT  in
 

Commenter Fast Eddie is concerned:

Do you have enough courage to take on the most controversial part of the whole Obama-Reid-Pelosi agenda?

If they managed to get the Senate bill passed in the House, HOW WOULD THAT EFFECT A MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES ABILITY TO PRIVATELY CONTRACT WITH THEIR PERSONAL DOCTOR in the event that their healthcare insurance won't cover something?

It wouldn't. There is nothing in either bill that bars you from giving a doctor money in exchange for a service. But my experience with these fears is that they usually come from a very twisted and wrong reading of something that actually exists in the bill. So if this is based on a real provision, let me know where it is and we can go through it in more detail.


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