Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:44:36PM -0500, judd@wadsworth.org wrote:
>>
>> As far as health care goes, medicare is by far the most efficient
>> system in the US.
>>
> 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.
>>
>> And virtually every other developed nation does have government
>> provided health care for all of its citizens, free market or no.
>>
> If everybody jumped off a bridge?
???
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>
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