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 -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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