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There are 60 million people on Medicare. If you can’t negotiate with twice the population of Canada I don’t think the problem is not enough beneficiaries.
by forrestthewoods 7y ago
There are 60 million people on Medicare. If you can’t negotiate with twice the population of Canada I don’t think the problem is not enough beneficiaries.
- Avshalom 7y agohttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=medicare+negotiate+prices&t=fpas&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=medicare+negotiate+prices&t=fpas&i...
- mdorazio 7y agoYou know Medicare sets separate prices from normal insurance, right? See [1]. For most procedures, there's the "we make up a number to charge to insurance companies" price and then there's the negotiated Medicare price with associated billing codes. [1] https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/cbo-reports-show-private-insurers-pay-physicians-hospitals-far-more-than-m/445949/ https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/cbo-reports-show-private...