Patient Power

Medicare: unfair, inefficient, fraudulant, costly

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons describes key problems with Medicare.  But of course any kind of “Medicare for All,” or Medicare Part E (E for everyone, get it?!) will have these problems. Of course not.

1. It is structured as a Ponzi scheme.
2. Its low administrative costs are a mirage.
3. It is sustained by the general fund and by cost-shifting.
4. Poor access to care, low payments to physicians
5. The system is rife with fraud.

For details on each, see the links above and the AAPS’s: Myth 24. Medicare is the model of efficiency and fairness.

(via FIRM)

• Medicare and administrative costs
• Incremental persuasion: Medicare and Medicaid
• More doctors drop Medicare patients
• Administrative costs: whose are lower?
• Medicare’s low payments … Boulder hospital closes