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To: tony who wrote (7628)	12/29/2002 5:28:20 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 306849

OT - This medicare is good to make doctors rich Not so fast, you can find lots of docs in financial difficulty from taking on too many medicare patients. I wish I could find a good link to the breakout of the $1.2 trillion medical system, but it leaves the docs in the 18%-range. The majority goes elsewhere, pharmas, medical equip, hospitals. It's hard to find pols to admit that we citizens pay for ALL medical care, one way or the other, it's only the methodology that determines how efficient. It used to be the doc was king and made all the bucks. In the last 3 decades it's intermediaries (insurance, lawyers, corporate interests, bureaucracy) that raise the majority of costs, and pass them around the economy through various political bribery. The attraction of consolidating all care through a single-payer like Switzerland is that it keeps the docs private, but cuts intermediary costs 50%. It doesn't come out of taxes, like car insurance everyone is required to take minimum insurance, which they can supplement to their heart's content. I had to pay Swiss insurance for employees of mine, and it was cheap and good, altho' that was the extent of my limited experience.