2016 Health Insurance Premiums
Those of us in the private health insurance market in Minnesota are being socked with 40-50% increases in premiums eff 1-1-16. I may have to put the RV up on blocks and park it in the driveway. I have...
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Shearwater wrote:
In this country there is also no financial incentive to be the best. Insurance companies or Medicare set a price for every procedure and the physician gets paid the same whether they are the best or the worst. The only way to get paid more is to do more procedures, just like in Germany.
Not true.. Different insurance companies pay differently for the same procedure. I've done a direct comparison on that.
And, OBTW, if you are a neurosurgeon at John Hopkins, I am quite sure you get paid more than a neurosurgeon in middle Georgia. Regardless of what the insurance company pays. There is absolutely competition amongst doctors to be the best in their profession, and get compensated accordingly.
