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Originally Posted by neg3sd
Every year fewer and fewer doctors accept medicare patients.
Is it beyond you to remember what I just told you a couple days ago? This is wrong. Over 90% of doctors who are accepting new patients are accepting Medicare patients, a rate indistinguishable from the rate at which doctors accept patients from any arbitrary large private insurance company.
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Medicare is heavily subsidized by the taxpayers. Most seniors paid $104.50 per month last year. Will a 40-year old get that good a deal from exchanges?
Yes, medicare is great for seniors. But they aren't paying for it.
You don't say? That's not a bug. It's a feature.
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And there is at least $90B a year in fraud.
And yet they're still able to be more efficient and cost effective than insurance companies because they can dictate lower reimbursement rates for hospitals. Magic!