Fat hurts wrote:
agip wrote:
yes, hospitals that serve primarily poor people will do better.
but hospitals that depend on the much higher payments from private insurance to subsidize the much lower medicare patients...will do very poorly.
this is all very complicated obviously, but there is little doubt that the much lower reimbursement rates from medicare would put a lot of the health care system in dire straits. Not all, but much.
No. With Medicare for all the hospitals don't have to take losses from serving the poor. And they don't have to overcharge anyone. Everyone is covered. The hospitals make a guaranteed profit.
The economics for the hospitals will all be the same as those thriving hospitals in Florida today that serve retirees.
are you claiming that medicare reimbursement rates are not much lower than private insurance reimbursement rates? I don't think that's a defensible statement.
I'm not sure where you think the money is going to come from for shiny hospitals and staff. it's not going to come from low medicare reimbursement rates, that's for sure.
But I'm not an expert on this so I don't want to get into the weeds.