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Title: Survey: Physicians Prefer Medicare to Private Plans
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Internal Medicine News
URL Source: http://www.internalmedicinenews.com ... -private-plans/9449dfc977.html
Published: Mar 01, 2001
Author: ERIK GOLDMAN
Post Date: 2011-07-14 09:22:35 by lucysmom
Keywords: What You Think You Know, Ain
Views: 41055
Comments: 66
DENVER — Physicians may not be enamored of Medicare, but they like it better than private insurance plans, according to a survey by the Medical Group Management Association. In MGMA's Payer Performance Study—covering more than 1,700 group practices—physician groups ranked Medicare Part B well ahead of six large private insurers in terms of overall satisfaction. The survey asked members of MGMA to rank seven of the largest payers (Medicare Part B, UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, Coventry, and Anthem) on payer communications, provider credentialing, contract negotiation, payment processing, systems transparency, and overall satisfaction. Medicare led the pack with a mean aggregate satisfaction score of 3.59 on a 6-point scale. Aetna took second place with a score of 3.14. The big loser? UnitedHealthcare, with a score of 2.45.
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#1. To: Badeye, A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, Capitalist Eric, Mininggold (#0)
A friend's doctor told her that Medicare actually pays better than Blue Shield.
One of my closest friends packed up his family, and moved out of the country. He and his wife are both doctors. They decided they weren't going to put with the ob@m@-c@re SOCIALIST system.
Maybe you could join them.
You first. You're a fucking SOCIALIST. I'm sure there are LOTS of countries that'd love to have a parasite like you: Cuba, Norway, France, China... oh, forget that last one... they SHOOT parasites. Then again, maybe you *should* go. You're a fucking waste of flesh, so why don't you just die?
Cuba doesn't put up with parasites. You work or you starve. ditto for the old Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, etc. It's only the decadent Europeans and Americans that allow lazy able bodied people to suck the lifeblood out of society.
I guess all that talk about Cuba being a communist country is more of that GOP BS. According to your description they fit that capitalist ideal of 'survival of the fittest' to a 'T'.
No. Communist countries forced people to work at the barrel of a gun. Ask anyone who lived in one.
You are mixing up communist and a dictatorship, while they aren't necessarily exclusive neither are they automatically inclusive either.
They are synonyms.
No, they are not. One is an economic system, the other is a political system. Hitler's Germany is an example of a Capitalist dictatorship; and reading the posts of capitalism's proponents on this forum, the preferred model.
Wrong again. Communist -- government kills the goose that lays the golden egg Fascist -- government controls the goose that lays the golden egg and makes it work for state purposes Capitalist -- government leaves the goose alone
Communist -- government kills the goose that lays the golden egg Fascist -- government controls the goose that lays the golden egg and makes it work for state purposes Capitalist -- government leaves the goose alone Again you don't know your definitions. Capitalism is an economic system although it does desire to be unregulated so it can do it's dirty deeds with impunity. But China is capitalist yet also manages to be a communist dictatorship. Why don't you try to find the word 'capitalism' in our constitution.
Why don't you try to find the word 'democracy' in our Constitution.
Because a Representative Republic and a Democracy are entirely different? I bet you didn't know that. Capitalists like to obfuscate by calling the US a democracy though, because it's their preferred political system.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThe MGMA survey did not ask about satisfaction with actual Medicare reimbursement rates, but Dr. Jessee said he anticipated that Medicare's ranking could drop considerably if the federal government cuts physician fees in the future.
#8. To: lucysmom (#1)
A friend's doctor told her that Medicare actually pays better than Blue Shield.
#9. To: Capitalist Eric (#8)
#10. To: lucysmom (#9)
#11. To: Capitalist Eric (#10)
I'm sure there are LOTS of countries that'd love to have a parasite like you: Cuba
#12. To: jwpegler (#11)
Cuba doesn't put up with parasites. You work or you starve. ditto for the old Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, etc. It's only the decadent Europeans and Americans that allow lazy able bodied people to suck the lifeblood out of society.
#13. To: mininggold (#12)
I guess all that talk about Cuba being a communist country is more of that GOP BS
#14. To: jwpegler (#13)
No. Communist countries forced people to work at the barrel of a gun. Ask anyone who lived in one.
#15. To: mininggold (#14)
You are mixing up communist and a dictatorship
#21. To: A K A Stone (#15)
They are synonyms.
#23. To: lucysmom (#21)
(Edited)
Hitler's Germany is an example of a Capitalist dictatorship
#25. To: jwpegler (#23)
(Edited)
Wrong again.
#33. To: mininggold (#25)
(Edited)
Why don't you try to find the word 'capitalism' in our constitution.
#37. To: jwpegler (#33)
Why don't you try to find the word 'democracy' in our Constitution.
#39. To: mininggold (#37)
obfuscate
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