It is not about studies it is about people who have been in the business and can tell us how it works from the inside.
This is a perfect example from a former senior official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This is exactly what I am talking about and what I have observed.
Further, Medicare and Medicaid will pay $15,000 for a patient of theirs to have a surgery done in a major hospital down the street but will not pay $8000 for the same procedure in a surgery center. It happens every day in the US.
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President Barack Obama deflects criticism that his health-care plan will bring on government rationing of medical care by arguing that insurance companies ration care. Everyone knows private payers limit access to some health care. But government does it in far more byzantine and arbitrary ways.
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