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That would break Medicare, because it pays under costs for procedures, and hospitals make it up from private parties. I'm in favor of what you suggest, but it
by ars 8y ago
That would break Medicare, because it pays under costs for procedures, and hospitals make it up from private parties.
I'm in favor of what you suggest, but it will come with increases in Medicare costs.
- r00fus 8y agoMedicare would be fixed by having all the healthy folks in the same risk pool. Right now privatized medicine are like charter schools - they can pick and choose their subscribers leading to lower costs and an obscene profit while Medicare gets the old folks who have multiple ER visits a year.
- ars 8y agoThat wouldn't help anything. At the end of the day even if you mixed them in, the same number of people would visit hospitals. So hospital utilization would not change. Remember I'm talking about the payment for any particular procedure, not the number of procedures an average person has.
- r00fus 8y agoIt would help for costs, which is what you mentioned above. I know from when I was healthy individual in my 20s, that I tried to avoid doctors visits as much as I could - even though I had killer coverage (90-95%). I still paid premiums (well my company did) but I simply didn't go.