The Heritage Foundation has a new report: Medicare Administrative Costs Are Higher, Not Lower, Than for Private Insurance. Ross Kaminsky has a nice summary of this in his post, Taking apart the Medicare "efficiency" myth. This is good to know, but let's look at the big picture. As I have ...
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons explains why the common claim that Medicare has lower adminstrative costs than commercial insurers. While it's good to know differences in accounting and the details behind the ...
Advocates of "Medicare for All" like to point out that Medicare's lower administrate costs justify a government-run health insurance program that everyone is eligible for. Even if the costs were lower, it's a non-sequitur. First off, administrative costs can be good. Medicare pays for just about everything, resulting in much ...
I often hear this from people who defeind confiscating taxpayer's money without their consent to pay for a government run insurance program for the elderly. They use this argument to justify wanting "Medicare for all." How does a defender of individual respond? Here's a way:
"If government employees can keep administrative ...
Advocates for more government control of health care like to say that having only one "insurer" will simplify billing. For a brief introduction to their 68-slide version of simple billing, browse through the Colorado Medical Assistance Billing Program 2007 Practioner Billing Workshop, available here .
Administrative overhead anyone?
