-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/07 08:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:04:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF8KqlS9HxQb37XmcRAsgqAJ4vjUeI7o5Bd4d7XSTdNlyHLtI+bACfXEYR 7WcE7aTmD/YQE+sA1Ptc5WM= =yztq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
