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Skriven 2006-07-08 01:08:00 av Robert E Starr JR (4174.babylon5)
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"Josh Hill" <usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 19:18:22 -0500, "Carl" <cengman7@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>  I'm in favor of [...]universal Medicare coverage [...which] would
>>>>> apparently
>>>>> return significantly more on the dollar than private insurance does.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I wonder, would businesses use this as an excuse to eliminate the 
>>>>private
>>>>insurance and many people would have worse coverage while businesses 
>>>>keep
>>>>the difference?
>>>
>>> In some cases, I think that might be the case -- its been a problem
>>> with the drug plan. But by and large, we aren't talking inferior care
>>> here -- it seems that Medicare pays the rates that insurance companies
>>> currently use as their own baseline. There might be some regional
>>> inequities -- medical care costs a lot more in Manhattan than it does
>>> in Iowa, and I don't think Medicare recognizes that, whereas private
>>> plans both charge and pay out more. It would I think be important to
>>> do so.
>>
>>One other thought I had...I tend to trust businesses to be *much* more
>>zealous in trying to find cases of fraud than I do the govt.
>
> That may well be true. My Grandmother told me once that when she
> complained about a fictitious charge, Medicare wasn't even interested.
> I'm not sure /how/ true it is, though. I mean, I mentioned possible
> fraud to my insurance company once and the adjuster just said "Huh,
> that does sound kind of suspicious" and did nothing. I suspect their
> attitude is that if they pay too much they can pass along the charges
> to their customers and that it would cost more to investigate a small
> case than it's worth.


When my son had his operations, the insurance companies were quite diligent 
about double checking everything both with us and the doctors ... even to 
the point of verifying the antibiotics afterwards.
                                                                               
                                             
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