By Maryann Knag  
GCC/Staff
Mar. 8, 2010

While I watched most of the Health Care Summit hosted by President Obama on Feb. 25th, I was aware of not one but THREE 800 lb. gorillas in the room at Blair House.

Gorilla #1 Both Medicare and Medicaid are broke and are not sustainable.

Gorilla #2 Insurance overhead costs consume 26% of all private health insurance dollars

Gorilla #3 the number of doctors/other providers is a constant and will not change if we add 30 million additional insured’s.

Democrat Sen. Kent Conrad and the Republicans acknowledged Gorilla #1, but Gorillas #2 & 3 went ignored while only the 2% profit margin of insurance companies was cited.

The only way to have the same number of docs see 15% more patients is to take some non-clinical load off their backs!  Like insurance intrusion, paperwork, approvals, coding, clerical staff hiring and supervision!

My Two Party Plan is the only one I have seen that provides care for all while disengaging docs from the third party reimbursement monster.

 

Source: Pay the Doctor

 

 

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