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Fallacy watch: containing health care spending vs. health care costs
Don’t confuse controlling health care costs with controlling spending. A government health plan can contain spending by refusing to pay for life-saving treatments, but this would impose great costs. Continue reading
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Tagged administrative costs, Medicare for All
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Debunking claims touting Medicare’s low admin costs & ability to keep prices low
Can Medicare “use its monopsony (single-buyer) power to suppress provider fees”? Does it have lower administrative costs than commercial health plans? Is Paul Krugman right that its per-capita spending has increased more slowly than commercial health plans? No. Continue reading
Medicare and administrative costs
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, … Continue reading
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Administrative costs: whose are lower?
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 spurious claim, the bigger picture is … Continue reading
Adminstrative costs: Medicare vs. insurance companies
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged administrative costs, Medicare, Medicare for All
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“Medicare has lower administrative costs”
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged administrative costs, Medicare, Medicare fraud, persuasion
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Medicaid Billing: nothing simple about it.
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 … Continue reading