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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (6598)	4/4/2009 12:06:21 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

I don't buy that. My doctor gets just the same reimbursement for me now as she did before I was on Medicare. Only now she has to wait until Medicare pays first, then my Blue Cross makes up the difference. A small proportion of patients have Medicare supplements. IN most instances the physician gets what Medicare allows ONLY, which is a pittance. BTW with BCBS as a supplement it is still one step; Medicare automatically "crosses over" the claim to BCBS after they adjudicate it, so the physician doesn't have to file a claim for each as with the typical "primary/secondary" situation.