[Oldeconomybuyer]

[rainee]

This is just the beginning.
This past year, my primary doctor for over 20 years closed her practice & joined a group.
Hubby’s primary is now taking cash only & then patient can bill insurance on own.

[Marathoner]

Effing piece of Kenyan pigs##t.

GOD I hate that man.

[SMARTY]

He looks stoned

[joethedrummer]

Ohhh, but things would probably be have been SOOOOO much worse had they NOT done it!!!

[knarf]

The overhead cost equals a whopping 22.5 percent doesn't seem all that bad .... for overhead

What is not well articulated (accusations, but not really explained) ... that there is a REALLY WHOPPING 77.5 % of additional cost to an already costly medical payment system

I don't know the answer except ... we have to get the cost of a band aid down to the fraction of a penny it really costs from the (a guess) 3 - 10 dollar cost now which pays for employees, hospital, electricity .... THAT overhead already too high.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Meanwhile, Congress is deaf, dumb, and gutless.

[lowbridge]

Bump

[GeronL]

That is just the overhead... jeesh

[Buckeye McFrog]

In contrast, the federal government's traditional Medicare program has overhead of just 2 percent, according to the report.

dindindindindindindinding......Congratulations! You've just found the hidden pitch for Single Payer.

[DBrow]

I propose we hire a study group to look into this! Maybe 100 specialists and a staff of 25 to support them, plus office rentals and phones, copy machines, parking in Washington DC and pensions.

We must find out why government bureaucracy is so expensive!

[Nachum]

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

Simply not possible. Everybody KNOWS that once you take the evil profit motive out of the equation, government can run things more efficiently and at far lower cost than the private sector. Maybe the study’s authors misplaced a negative sign somewhere along the line and the government is reducing OH costs by $270B. That’s far more likely. Right?

[VTenigma]

So the plan that was finagled by the CBO to be $900bil and change over 10 years so that it wouldn’t be over a trillion will now be a trillion every 3.5 years just as we all knew it would.

TNWITOAOUAHCA The No Way In This Or Any Other Universe Affordable Health Care Act.