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Health care companies already backpedaling on cost cutting committments. -- (link)

Posted by znufrii May 15 '09, 08:37

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/health/policy/15health.html?hpw (www.nytimes.com)

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Aside: My wife's 20-hour hospital visit for the birth of our girl 3 weeks ago cost more than her c-section 3 years ago. -- nm - Mop (236 lbs) May 15, 08:52
We need single-payer coverage as soon as possible. -- nm - Don Homer May 15, 08:38 7
- Counterpoint: healthcare costs are not necessarily cured by removing what few actual market pressures still exist in the system. - TFox May 15, 08:43 5
  - except that's not really the case in any single-payer health care system. they're inefficient in entirely different ways. -- nm - mafic May 15, 08:52
  - Medicare would disagree. -- nm - Mop (236 lbs) May 15, 08:51 3
    - Health insurance rates for people on private insurance are higher because Medicare underpays. True fact. - TFox May 15, 08:53 2
      - it's pretty debatable whether medicare underpays, or the care providers just want more money from them. - mafic May 15, 08:56 1
        
        I'd say it's a near certainty that Medicare underpays, based on the level of care people expect. We could debate the degree of it for sure. -- nm - TFox May 15, 08:58
- it would be nice. -- nm - znufrii May 15, 08:41

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