FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - The State of the Union, Health care and more lies from the President

In article
>
, Werner J. Severin > wrote:

> In article >, wrote:
>
> > In rec.food.cooking Steven P. McNicoll >
> wrote:
> >
> > > It's the other way round. Free market competition keeps cost down and
> > > service up.
> >
> > Not always. One of the biggest problems with the private health care
> > system in the states is that the overhead for preparing insurance forms
> > and paperwork is staggering. I just spoke with a tech at a blood lab
> > in my neighborhood and she said they spend hours every day just doing
> > paperwork after the doors close at night. My sister who's a psychologist
> > in private practice also echoed the same concern to me on several
> > occassions,
> > the she spends hours doing insurance paperwork, which could better be
> > spent treating patients.
>
>
> Medicare administrative costs: 2%
>
> Average administrative costs of H.M.O.'s 15%
>
> New York Times, January 28, 2004, page A 25 (National Edition)

Are you saying a doctors billing costs are included in the HMOs
overhead ?

Did the article compare fraud costs ?

jay
Tue Feb 03, 2004