[Villages Kahuna]

...and it probably should.

Healthcare insurance is one issue. Finding a doctor to treat you is another. Good docs are in short supply around TV. Why would we expect otherwise? TV annual population growth is at a rate larger than the towns that many of us came from. In fact TV population grows by 3X the size of the Chicago suburb I lived in...each year!

Combine the health insurance mess with the fact that fewer smart kids are opting for medical school and fewer still choosing internal or family medicine, and you can see the problem.

Any doctor who comes to TV will have to decide beforehand that he's willing to make his living on Medicare assignments. With the payments to doctors scheduled for substantial decreases in the next few years, you can see why many doctors are shying away from taking on any new Medicare patients. If you're paying attention, I'm sure you all know many family members or friends who have been shut out from doctors who will no longer provide treatment to Medicare patients, whether or not they have supplemental coverage.

Yep, this is almost certainly a subject for the political forum.