Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
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On 03/08/07 08:24, judd@wadsworth.org wrote:
> On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:04:21PM -0500, judd@wadsworth.org wrote:
>>> On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>>>> Really? Then why won't every doctor in American accept Medicare?
>>>>
>>> Irrelevant. Not every doctor in America accepts any private
>>> health plan, either, even very good ones, like the one that I have.
>>>
>>> I was talking about efficiency. Medicare's overhead is about 5%,
>>> as opposed to about 15% for private health plans. Add to that the
>>> profit margin of the private plans, and you can see that medicare is
>>> easily the most efficient. Perhaps some plans reimburse more than
>>> medicare does, and some doctors don't want to accept it the lower
>>> rate. That would add to the cost to the consumer, and if anything is
>>> less efficient.
>>>
>> So, if medicare is so efficient, you'd think that doctors would be
>> clamoring to accept it. Their overhead is lower so they should be
>> able to pay the doctors more, right?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -Roberto
>>
>
> Again, my point was that medicare is more efficient.
>
> If private insurance reimburses at a higher rate, it costs the
> consumer even more. If medicare raised their rates, perhaps more
> doctors would accept it.
Geez, you blithely skip right over the "raise taxes to pay the
doctors, thus costing consumers even more" part?
> It would still be more efficient than the
> private plans, which was my point.
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