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I have a friend who believes something similar.That's happening now and has been for a decade. It has nothing to do with ACA.
Most insurance companies piggyback on Medicare charges so, except for Cadillac Plans, most doctors don't get paid more whether their patients are Medicare patience or in a typical plan. They complain bitterly about this every time Medicare comes out with a tighter pricing schedule, because the insurance companies follow shortly thereafter and negotiate similar prices.
The medical market of the past 25 years is unsustainable and will be swept away. Indeed, more and more hospitals are forming sister organizations to hire doctors as employees (hospitals are barred from directly hiring doctors), so the number of doctors who will be in private practice is expected to plummet. In the future most doctors will likely be employees, not private practitioners. Indeed, I suspect that this trend is somehow behind the garbled reporting of the OP.
He suggests the FedGov training and employing all doctors, nurses and aids. Building the medical schools and the hospitals, paying everyone set amount, etc... Sounds like pure Socialism to me.