(07-17-2018, 10:29 PM)lastonealive Wrote:

(07-17-2018, 09:36 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: The US government sets the prices of health care in America.

And how do they set the price? Also could efficiencies be found with a single payer model

Congress passes legislation that sets the price factors, CMS develops the fee schedule that Medicare pays, all contracts with private insurers are based on the Medicare fee schedule. Just this calendar year Congress changed the price factors twice resulting in millions of dollars of work reprocessing claims when they backdated the fee schedule updates after the fact. Here in Florida the changes resulted in a roughly 3.5% overall change in reimbursement from January 1 to March 15 that we still haven't completely worked through.

And politics is so deeply engrained in that legislative process as doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, nonprofits, health care corporations, retail stores and patient advocacy groups all lobby their [BLEEP] off to get their share of the health care dollar that the single payer model would be just as ineffective. See the Massachusetts, Tennessee, and VA plan scandals for how our government can screw it up in different ways.No, we need market based health care with fewer government friction points and reduced administrative costs, not more government control with cockamamie schemes thought up by accounting nerds who know spreadsheets better than medicine.

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