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Sherman A1

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Reply to eridani (Original post)

Thu Jul 25, 2013, 04:53 AM

Jul 2013

It absolutely makes sense from the business perspective, unless of course you happen to be a private health insurance company, but one suspects that even they could easily adjust to a new landscape with supplemental policies and alike.

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How Much Could Medicare for All Save You? [View all] eridani Jul 2013 OP

K&R Sherman A1 Jul 2013 #1

they seems to do just fine in the medicare supplement field. I see their damned commercials all the ejpoeta Jul 2013 #2

Right now, private insurers administer all Medicare claims, and offer Medicare Advantage plans Hoyt Jul 2013 #6

If insurance companies are allowed to do NOTHING bur process claims, that would be fine eridani Jul 2013 #9

They do refuse to pay claims, like cosmetic surgery, over utilization, upcoding, false claims, fraud Hoyt Jul 2013 #19

The unscrupulous people are insurance companies eridani Jul 2013 #20

Insurance companies process Medicare claims, but that also entails denying "improper" claims. Hoyt Jul 2013 #21

I'd rather have those things determined by people who don't get bonuses eridani Jul 2013 #22

That's for sure. Hoyt Jul 2013 #23

Do the rich have problems sitting in the same waiting room as the poor? KrazyinKS Jul 2013 #3

The rich would demand the headsman theaocp Jul 2013 #7

they do on toronto's Sunnybrook cancer centre riverbendviewgal Jul 2013 #8

You have to be poor so they can be rich. bemildred Jul 2013 #11

Of course. There was talk of lowering the eligibility age to 55 when the ACA was being put together. geckosfeet Jul 2013 #4

Recced. nt livingwagenow Jul 2013 #5

But private plans subsidize Medicare and Medicaid Recursion Jul 2013 #10

Medicare was a way to keep the most expensive patients off the InsCos books. bemildred Jul 2013 #12

Providers, not insurers Recursion Jul 2013 #13

Providers don't have to be paid more. All we have to do is open the door. bemildred Jul 2013 #14

You mean the AMA's caps on med schools? Recursion Jul 2013 #15

No, I mean immigration, but what you mention too. bemildred Jul 2013 #16

That too. count me in Recursion Jul 2013 #17

Cool. I'm not saying we will do that. But we certainly could, no problem. bemildred Jul 2013 #18

KICK johnnyreb Jul 2013 #24

K&R woo me with science Jul 2013 #25

The PTB hate that idea. Then the insurance industry would Cleita Jul 2013 #26

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