-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/07 09:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 8 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:42:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF8X/ES9HxQb37XmcRAh/uAKCYmr1NjFmn3deol5c1+zOfQIM4dQCg5bO/ +XpLGO8fSHiElv7HUlgMuxM= =g6hh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
