[bonesmccoy]

OK... somehow you've left out the fact that HMO's send a cap check to the hospital for each patient being cared for by the medical group.

So, basically, the hospital gets paid for rendering no service and the medical group gets paid when rendering no service.

Your analysis is flawed because you are not privy to the cap rates paid to physician offices under medicare HMO plans.

These plans send only $5.00 per month to most physicians.

You can't render ANY care at that rate.

[4CJ]

Your analysis is flawed because you are not privy to the cap rates paid to physician offices under medicare HMO plans.

If you'll go back through all my posts on this subject, the one constant is that I advocate that the government leave this issue to the citizens, not that I support HMO's or any other plan with government funding.

These plans send only $5.00 per month to most physicians.

Why were HMO's, PPO's formed in the first place? To offer a low cost alternative. With that low-cost is low service.