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To: RetiredNow who wrote (381658)	4/30/2008 6:19:53 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574343

Who said anything about shifting payers from the individual to gov't? We've been talking about collective bargaining. It is the same thing. If you cut payments to providers you cut the quality of health care. Hell, providers are already soaked by certain insurance companies who have become too powerful. It started with Medicare, but some commercial carriers are so powerful in almost every locality that they are able to cut fee schedules. When this happens, those costs just have to shift to other insurances and the uninsured. Which is precisely what happens. You cannot improve the situation by squeezing the providers which is what I've tried to explain to both of you and you just don't understand the system well enough to get it.