levin70

'Blue-Dogging' Health Care

To the OP

There is a reason that private companies spend on G&A. They spend significant sums on fraud detection and prevention. They happen to do a much, much better job at it than medicare does. Not only that, but you introduce a medicare type system that mandates reimbursement at lower rates than what the system charges those in private policies, and those private policies go away. What's the problem with that - well then, 20% of the hospitals and 20% of the doctors go away with them. They don't want to make less than what they are making now and having to work twice as hard to get reimbursed 300 days later than private paying suppliers.

Imagine a gov't run program to devlier healthcare that turns into the DMV.

Yeah, because thats exactly what I want.