Study: Government run health care more expensive than private sector care

What we knew to be true proven in a new report.

Barack Obama claims - incredibly - that spending more on health care via his "public option" health care plan will lower costs.

Not only has the Congressional Budget Office found this assertion to be wrong, a new study points out that government run health care is actually more expensive than private-sector care. Jeffrey Anderson, the author of that study, says in a New York Post Op-ed that Obama's rhetoric doesn't match reality:

...study shows that -- across four decades -- the costs of government-run health care have risen far more than the costs of private care. The key finding: Since 1970, Medicare and Medicaid's costs have risen one-third more, per patient, than the combined costs of all other health care in America -- the vast majority of which is purchased privately. [Mac indent, l2r post]

In fact, if the costs of Medicare and Medicaid had risen only as much as the costs of all other health care in America, instead of costing a combined $807 billion last year they would've cost a combined $606 billion. That savings of $201 billion would have amounted to more than $1,750 per American household last year alone. [conversely, can it not be said that the programs' inefficiencies have cost each household ~1750$ a year?] [mac x3 indent r2l post]

We should also keep in mind that doctors who accept Medicare and Medicaid patients often complain about the small reimbursements the government provides them. Yet the total cost for treating those patients is higher than it is for private sector patients...

[Well, all the government 'administrators' - union members all - need to be paid too don't they?
I.e., it's insulting to be asked to believe we can add another entire layer of bureaucracy to the system and not increase costs - but the last election has taught them they can sell anything with the MSMs help. ]

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