No. Medicare has continuously cut its reimbursement to the point in which many physicians opt out. A nearby gastroenterology endoscopy center performs hundreds of endoscopies of week, none of them Medicare or Medicaid patients. Specialty hospitals will cease providing for Medicare patients and will only cater to private insurers. Medicare patients will then be cornered into the non-profit hospitals, many of which, are barely surviving economically. But what does it matter? I hear that Medicare will sputter out by 2012.