She saw exactly what I did, the huge waste of resources that go into our bizarre medical coding system and the system that feeds off of that to reimburse health care providers. It doesn't work efficiently. It contains huge holes that can be gamed easily and vast areas where mistakes abound costing huge sums of money and creating poor service and overpayment for patients. Often it results in denial of critical service.
I'll tell you what I told her, and you apparently overlooked: None of this would be improved by turning it all over to government bureaucracies, and most of it would get worse. I used examples involving Medicare--an existing program, not an imaginary one.
Those who believe that a government program of that size would somehow (unlike almost all other large government programs) be a paragon of efficiency, low cost, rationality, and excellent service, are smoking something.
My original point was that if government health care is all that and a bag of chips, they should fix Medicare first, and prove it.
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- Test driving government health care
- We've driven the current system into a ditch for most Americans (n/t)
- What's going to change?
- A Century ago, in Ybor City
- "...before we put everybody in the country in the program"
- Here's the Finance Committee presentation
- Did you READ it?
- Since you love to just throw a link into a post, here's back at ya...
- Great stuff. Send us Part I.
- Non-profit medical
- No offense, but you guys are rather dense.
- All Conservatives need to justify the status-quo is "high profit".
- Great stuff. Send us Part I.
- and leave us with what?
- Since you love to just throw a link into a post, here's back at ya...
- "Are you ever going to put your strawman arguments to rest? "