Early this year, Barbara Plumb, a freelance editor and writer in New York who is on Medicare, received a disturbing letter. Her gynecologist informed her that she was opting out of Medicare. When Ms. Plumb asked her primary-care doctor to recommend another gynecologist who took Medicare, the doctor responded that she didn’t know any – and that if Ms. Plumb found one she liked, could she call and tell her the name? Many people, just as they become eligible for Medicare, discover that the insurance rug has been pulled out from under them. Some doctors – often internists but also … Continue reading Doctors Are Opting Out of Medicare