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Article #956Re: Trust Me - I'm from the Government to help you
From: Mike Quigley
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 19:11
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 19:11
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In article <2440@shaman.wv.tek.com> alanj@endeavor18.tek.com (Alan Jeddeloh) writes: > >I might point out that the overhead in the Medicaid program is currently >estimated at 4%. The overhead for private insurance averages 7%. I recall >the figures from Time magazine. According to figures I got from St. Charles hospital in Bend, and verified by a friend who is a claims adjuster in Portland, private insurance overhead runs anywhere from 25% to 40%! Yikes! No wonder they fight to preserve the status quo. They're cutting a fat hog at our expense! Mike
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.tek.com!master!freddy!mikeq From: mikeq@freddy.CNA.TEK.COM (Mike Quigley) Newsgroups: pnw.general Subject: Re: Trust Me - I'm from the Government to help you Message-ID: <4155@master.CNA.TEK.COM> Date: 7 Jan 93 19:11:46 GMT References: <MS-C.726253721.377401575.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <1554@nazgul.UUCP> <2440@shaman.wv.tek.com> Sender: news@master.CNA.TEK.COM Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Redmond, OR. Lines: 13