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To: Alighieri who wrote (607959)	4/16/2011 9:58:38 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583415

Because it allows the doctor's office to recover some of the underpayments it may receive from medicare and allows medicare to keep it's costs down You contradict yourself in the same freaking sentence. The doctor's office makes more money because of it (which is correct), yet it allows Medicare to keeps it costs down (which it does not). What it REALLY does is allows Medicare and Medicaid patients to receive care when the low reimbursement rates otherwise would not permit them to be seen at all. One could argue this is a good thing. Fundamentally, there is no reason these people should be able to receive the same level of care as people who are well-insured. But it is unnecessary; if you get government out of the health care business the increased efficiency and savings from reduced fraud will go a long way.