On 9 Mar, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> 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.
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>>> 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
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> Efficiency? Or waste?
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Oops! Those figures would be overhead. At this point, however,
I'm not sure of how the various studies define overhead, so I have some
homework to do.
-Chris
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