Or is it a myth?
The bottom line is this: the true administrative costs of government-run health care aren’t lower than those of the private insurance industry. This is just another myth promulgated by the evangelists of socialized medicine.
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In addition to the administrative costs of the government, and the fiscal intermediary (insurance company) that they contract with, there are the administrative costs of the providers themselves. Did anyone make and accounting the of the tremendous expenditure of valuable time by providers to try to correct all the snafus with the part D rollout? No, because no one got a bill.
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