Do health care providers think they are being paid too much?
Health care providers do not think that they are being paid too much by the private insurers. But when they see how much less the public insurers – Medicare and Medicaid – are paying them, they are likely to join the chorus of demanding that our public insurers be replaced with private plans.
Is Medicare more efficient than private insurance?
Medicare has long been credited with being a more efficient purchaser of health care than has the private insurance industry. Evidence of that has been lower payments made by Medicare compared to the higher payments made by private insurers.
