I fear that the savings we see from Medicare is from paying out smaller and smaller reimbursements. This could cause many health care organizations to go out of business.
As I have pointed out before in the past, many times, the reimbursement for an EMS call involving paramedics used to be in the range of about $100 (It changed to this about 6 or 7 years ago). In a lot of cases, that will not even cover the medications given to the patient (not to mention the compensation for the EMS crew, fuel, wear & tear on vehicles, etc...). When about 65% of our patients were Medicare, this really put a big hurting on us. On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Judah McAuley<[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you really that retarded Gruss? I mean that in the most literal > sense. Like unable to have grown up, discern cause and effect, > consider the past and extrapolate to the future? You seem like a child > lost in the woods. > > Go look at the CBO report. It details 100 billion in savings over 10 > years. It explains the savings in Medicare and the general public. I > don't think it is optimal, but it is a start. It needs a whole lot > more on the cost control side of things. But your complete and total > inability to understand insurance and its related costs is astounding. > Once upon a time, I had thought you vaguely intelligent and capable of > following point A to B. Now I really do believe that you were a neocon > once upon a time. I wasn't around this list for it, but I'll easily > take it at face value now. > > If you have a problem with the CBO report (which is conservative > compared to others) then by all means, present you critique. I'd > welcome it in fact as I have some worries about the public option but > have not been able to come up with a decent counter argument to the > CBO estimate myself. > > Thus far all I've seen, however, is more sputum sucked from the same > trach tube and perhaps you know what that smells like. > > Judah > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Gruss Gott<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Morgan wrote: >>> >>> Actually, you can't, in most cases, cancel your insurance through your >>> employer outside of the open enrollment period. Short of quitting my job, >>> I'm locked in until June 1, 2010. >>> >> >> Yeah, one of the reasons why I'd cut the tie between employers and >> group coverage. If employers wanted to contribute tax-free to an HRA, >> that's great, but the plan should be independent of employers. >> >> It's why I think this whole "public option" is like an idiot bizarro world >> idea. >> >> We already have a "public option": it's called medicaid and medicare. >> So just expand eligibility if that's the genius answer. >> >> I mean here the problem is complicated mess or constituents with >> misaligned incentives and the answer is another constituent? >> >> That's just stupid. >> >> (just ranting - not directed at you) >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:302445 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
