Are you kidding me? That’s outrageous. What I’m after is the cumulative effect of goverment intervention in health care and I have found nothing that answers this in my research. Isn’t it logical that medicare and medicaid subsidized health care that ramps up demand and this led to the HMO Act while legislation like EMTALA provided an unfunded mandate for emergency care regardless of ability to pay or legal status that again drives up demand for medical care..if any freepers have any good research, please semd it to me.
From my understanding, Medicare & Medicaid have driven up the costs for paying patients because they reimburse the Dr. an amount that is way less than the actual costs and therefore it is added to paying patients bills.