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On Sun, 23 May 2004 17:53:14 GMT, "Brooks Gregory"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"mike gray" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:205sc.53060$hH.995373@bgtnsc04-
>news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>> Ted Rosenberg wrote:
>> >
>> > Skeptic wrote:
>> >> I don't disagree with much of your overall point, but
>> >> let me try to
>> > <snipped for brevity)
>> >
>> > You have one major mistake, and it is a MAJOR one.
>> > Medicare overhead is a very small fraction of overhead
>> > of prepaid health plans.
>> >
>> > The current system where the Blues and Aetna provide
>> > most of the health care in the US is incredibly
>> > inefficient.
>> >
>> >
>> And you have made a MAJOR mistake. Administrative costs
>> are computed very differently for government and private
>> entities. When they are figured on the same basis, they
>> are very close.
>>
>
>Plus, if you look at the federal budget, you will discover
>that Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid costs are spread
>over several different line items.
Which is all paid for, btw, not like the
administration's current spending and wanting to borrow
from it from SS either.
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"mike gray" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:205sc.53060$hH.995373@bgtnsc04-
>news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>> Ted Rosenberg wrote:
>> >
>> > Skeptic wrote:
>> >> I don't disagree with much of your overall point, but
>> >> let me try to
>> > <snipped for brevity)
>> >
>> > You have one major mistake, and it is a MAJOR one.
>> > Medicare overhead is a very small fraction of overhead
>> > of prepaid health plans.
>> >
>> > The current system where the Blues and Aetna provide
>> > most of the health care in the US is incredibly
>> > inefficient.
>> >
>> >
>> And you have made a MAJOR mistake. Administrative costs
>> are computed very differently for government and private
>> entities. When they are figured on the same basis, they
>> are very close.
>>
>
>Plus, if you look at the federal budget, you will discover
>that Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid costs are spread
>over several different line items.
Which is all paid for, btw, not like the
administration's current spending and wanting to borrow
from it from SS either.