-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/07 08:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 8 Mar, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 03/08/07 08:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> ... > >>> 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? >> > > Which is both obvious and doesn't really change the point of the > post, below: > >>> It would still be more efficient than the >>> private plans, which was my point. >> > > Besides which, if more doctors accept medicare, the total cost > to consumers would be less, just the proportion paid in taxes vs > private premiums and out of pocket would change.
Why don't more doctors accept Medicare? Low reimbursements? Burdensome regulations? Both? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF8Xd7S9HxQb37XmcRAmZFAJ4lGHvzrXo5Nq/Ypw26j8wt9X/YJQCgvcDK 3/IW7kpBRQWLbcYia/A+Pq0= =lCbx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
