Blue Cross of Massachussetts has 3,800 total employees. Even assuming all of those employees were administrators, if Canada has fewer of them that would be about one administrator for every 8,000 Canadians.
Be interesting to see where their numbers came from. I suspect -- no evidence -- they simply discarded the regional administrators - where health care is disbursed in Canada - and counted only Federal ones, which deal directly only with extremely limited populations.
If you find the sourcing and numbers, put them up.
The very low Medicare administration numbers are primarily due to the fact that Medicare farms out a lot of functions that private companies include in "overhead."
Paper here. Go to page 3 for specifics.
In general, the word "overhead" is pretty damn fuzzy and I wouldn't mind seeing a breakdown.
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That second chart should have raised your eyebrows.
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