I've never had medicare pay me, it's always been "here is a cheque for the doctor, please take it to him, we cannot send it directly to him because of reasons".

I've never had medicare pay me, it's always been "here is a cheque for the doctor, please take it to him, we cannot send it directly to him because of reasons". I don't know what they're doing, and I'm not really interested in wading through mygov again after the pain in the arse it made submitting tax last year unless I have to. If going to the doctor isn't easy, then I'll only go when I have a problem. When I do go, I'll pay full price myself, so I don't have to deal with Medicare.