Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Expand Government Health Care?
While Obama pushes for more government involvement in health care, two clinics that treated Medicare patients in Colorado have closed. The reason? Doctors can make more money from treating patients in private pay systems. Sally Pipes, author of "The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care," writes in the March 6 WSJ that "the government programs, Medicare and Medicaid, reimburse providers 20% to 40% less than private health insurance providers, facts which are conveniently ignored by those who want to expand government health care."
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This is a bit of a slippery slope. I worked for 2 completely different hospitals and know for a fact they overcharged government programs and not private insurance. At the same time, they lost money since most government insurance patients could not or would not pay their part. Private is the way to go.
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