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If the feds were to ever cap Medicare fees to high degrees you'll simply see more doctors and service providers...drop out of the program as they won't earn enough to cover *their* costs. As a result access to care for the people who need it most will get worse.
Correct. If you hurt the people who actually help patients, they will be motivated to quit. If you attack the administrative overhead, which I have been talking about, you cut costs without impacting patients or care providers.
I have, repeatedly, seen people complain about the increasing amounts of education funding that get sidetracked into administrative overhead, vs education. Why do I never hear the same complaints about the administrative overhead in health care?
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?
Steve
