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To: i-node who wrote (688972)	12/18/2012 1:05:15 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) of 1574004

Study, after economic analysis, after study has shown that the government payment system is directly responsible for increasing cost spiral for health care. It is pretty simple: As Medicare & Medicaid underpay for services, those costs are dumped onto private insurers (and worse, self-pay patients). Fees have to be increased to maximize reimbursements. Year after year. So the aggregate remains the same, no? In other words the average per capita for seniors goes down but it goes up for everyone else...but the average doesn't change. In any case, can you post the studies you mention? I found a small summary article on Forbes... The biggest driver of the gap is spending with specialist doctors, which is 3-6 times higher in the U.S. versus peers. forbes.com Al

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