Where did you get your cost per day for rehabilitation services? How will "Medicare For All" affect elder Medicare services?

That is if one has been hospitalized for three days and therefore covered by Medicare. My question was in regards to an article on this forum about patients placed under observation in hospital which results in no Medicare coverage for the hospital or rehab. The article stated that rehab was $275 a day. Your figure of $150 20% co-pay agrees with my experience that rehab costs about $500 to $530 a day. Sounds about right. Some supplemental insurance policies will cover that 20% once you reach the 20 day mark. That supplemental insurance can be worth its weight in gold.

I appreciate your dilemma concerning access to a primary care physician. I lived in Utah for a period of time and know how spread out resources are:) My worry with Medicare For All is that you will have to drive 8 hours to find a primary care physician for the very same reasons you find difficulty now as you will be competing with the entire population. In my neck of the woods, many physicians no longer provide care to Medicaid patients and are starting to "lock out" Medicare patients. Some who feel that they are expected to carry too many patients have set up boutique practices where patient participants must pay a sizeable yearly fee. Others, like my old primary care, leave their practices outright due to the extraordinary paperwork, preferring to work as hospitalists. I was the caregiver to my parents who lived to be 89 and 90. I witnessed how as each year took away some ability, they became more vulnerable. I have witnessed the decline of services for this at-risk group and believe that it is imperative that we protect Medicare patients services and rights. It's hard to believe that adding the general populace to that group will improve the situation for our elderly.