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To: Alighieri who wrote (688987)	12/18/2012 1:52:24 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1574005

>> So the aggregate remains the same, no? In other words the average per capita for seniors goes down but it goes up for everyone else...but the average doesn't change. No, the aggregate does not remain the same. Medicare and Medicaid comprise an ever-increasing portion of the total number of patient encounters, meaning more and more costs transferred to private payors. Because Medicare and Medicaid are vastly less efficient than private insurers, you have more and more services provided in exchange for less and less compensation in half the health care economy; yet, the full cost of that economy must be borne by someone, and it ends up being the ratepayers (in the other half of the health care economy) for private insurance (and in some cases, taxpayers in localities). >> In any case, can you post the studies you mention? Not right now but I'll save this message and see what I can do when I have more time.