Originally Posted by
ponderingturtle
Well for starters the overhead in medicare is 6% of costs as opposed to 30% when the efficiency of private coverage comes into the game. Then there is the simplification of medical billing and hopefully less "reject everything twice to make it go away before paying" make work positions in insurance.
My point was more to do with the fact that they throw up 52 trillion and say "too expensive" when medicare is involved. Yet the same amount is paid if you use private insurance. And it also ends up as "bad healthcare" if the government is paying and good if you pay thru the nose to insurance. Yet the doctor gets the same amount of income.