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To: i-node who wrote (380089)	4/24/2008 1:39:21 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1578501

Fat Soldiers What's the Army's policy on overweight recruits? slate.com

To: i-node who wrote (380089)	4/24/2008 2:01:17 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578501

It is the fact that private insurers subsidize government payers. Without private insurers, who pay at least 133% of Medicare for most procedures, and typically 160% or more, the health care system COULD NOT FUNCTION. Then how does it function, and function very well, on 50% of our cost in other industrialized countries? As to the efficiency of systems, I can give you many, many examples where Medicare/Medicaid are total flops from an efficiency point of view. But private insurers simply cannot do this -- they do not wield the power of Medicare, and providers can simply say, "We don't deal with that insurer because they don't pay their bills". A provider cannot do this with Medicare because he needs Medicare patients to cover the fixed operating costs of his practice. Now that really smell of BS.