Medicare denies more claims than all private insurance combined

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makingmusic476 said:

Rath said:
My point still holds. The use of the word combined is both misleading and incorrect. I believe what you meant was that it is 1.7* higher than the average of the private insurers.

Also Medicare provides coverage for 43M Americans. Approximately 250M Americans have health insurance. Why are all the other insurers on that list's total claims only a third of medicares total claims?

It looks like they only counted a certain number of records from each source and calculated a percent from that.

I wonder how they decided how many to count.

Though it only covers 20% of the population... Medicare is the largest insurer in the US.

Hence why it has the biggest numbers. 

So the report is accurate.  Though the title is misleading. This is done by the AMA afterall.  They can't afford to doctor reports.  Right now they're actually the group without a political backer.  Also I think it would be illegal.

They'd like to see an end to the governments helping of insurnce companies but they also don't want government run healthcare.  They just want all the regulations taken out that make it so insurance companies don't have to really compete with each other as much as other buisnsesses.

Something like  "Medicare most likely to deny claims" would be more accurate.... but there is some other interesting stuff in the report i'll get to in a next post... little bit of reading to go over first.