Medicare denies more claims than all private insurance combined

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HappySqurriel said:

highwaystar101 said:

HappySqurriel said:

There is an element of this which is not surprising being that medicare covers the elderly which tend to require the most (and the most expensive) treatments. With that said, being that the United States spends as much per-capita on Medicare and Medicaid as other developed nations spend on their entire healthcare systems, this does beg the question "where is all the money going?"

 

I believe the money is being wasted on a criminally inefficient system. Although I like the idea of medicaid in theory, I do not agree with how it is run and the way it has acted on solving certain logistical issues. It operates in a very flawed manner imo. I think a hybrid system where the national sector could go to benefit 100% of Americans could be done in a way which operates far more efficiently than the current system.

The entire concept of Healthcare that the world uses today (the treatment of sick people) is critically flawed and changing who pays for it doesn't make much of a difference ...

The old cliche your grandmother probably knew well "A dime of prevention is worth a dollar of cure" is still correct today, but worldwide the dime of prevention is an ignored concept so we can fund people to produce the dollar cure.

I think it's ignored for a much simpler reason.

It's hard to sell.

Afterall places with near universal healthcare coverage don't have the best records with prevention... as people look at things like "a free checkup every 6 months" as wasteful since it's "Healthcare for the well".  Even though it would save money in the long run.

Also a lot of people don't want to go to preventitive steps.

I mean to go through a prevenetivive step is to admit that you may end up with the problem.  Lots of people fear going to the doctor because they're afraid of bad news... despite the fact that it's not the doctor who creates the bad news.