Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
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On 03/09/07 09:20, judd@wadsworth.org wrote:
> On 8 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:42:24PM -0500, judd@wadsworth.org wrote:
>>> While government bureaucracies may in general be wasteful,
>>> medicare is currently more efficient than any private plan. I'm not
>>> sure that the "free market" guarantees the best results for products
>>> or services which are not truly commodities, and I place health care
>>> in this category.
>>>
>> You keep saying that. Please provide a source.
>>
>> Regards,
>
> I have read this in several places. A quick google today shows
> various studies that show medicare efficiency at 2.1 - 6 %, compared to
> a range of 12 - 30 % for various private plans. There are also comments
Efficiency? Or waste?
> that the medicare numbers may be too optimistic, but I don't see anyone
> claiming that private plans are the more efficient. If I have time
> later I'll do a literature search, rather than try to slog through
> the google stuff to try and determine the best numbers.
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