Trusting Medicare

July 24, 2007

Some are advocating “Medicare for all”, partly because of the low-interference such a system will provide. Can this stay true in the future?

As Medicare expenditures rise, this illusion of non-interference will become much harder to maintain and indeed Medicare itself may become less popular. I am always curious to hear — from single-payer proponents — which interest groups they think will have a decisive say over the system, and how those interest groups differ in America vs. Western Europe.

(via Health Care Renewal)



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1 Anonymous July 25, 2007 at 9:03 pm

Medicare survives as a parasite on the private market. Payment is viable only when the cost basis of treating medicare patients is considered only on a marginal cost basis rather than a prorated share of actual cost. If they were the only payor, the bottom would fall out of quality.

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