Subject: Re: The Affordability Tour Kicks Off
I have not worked in a doctor's office. How are Medicare claims handled? The same inefficient way that private insurance is handled. Is everything about filing paper forms and waiting weeks/months for payment?

I have not worked in a doctor's office either, but both my wife and my brother accepted Medicare patients at various times in their careers. Both of them detested everything about the payment process, and both reported it to be vastly more time consuming, frustrating, and inefficient than dealing with private insurance. Both left Medicare entirely, and solely because it just wasn't worth the time and brain damage to get paid.

Seems to me that the main difference is that patients are shielded from being exposed to any of that frustration in Medicare, while they get dumped into the soup with the provider in private insurance.