Oliver Frank wrote:
.. the above seems to describe much of what our government is doing now through the Medicare benefits and payments system. Ne'cest pas?
Others might wish to comment on whether the Medicare schedule really does encourage the provision of cost-effective services!
But there is no doubt that private health insurance (and the new Medicare safety-net) encourages any such impact to be bypassed!
Cheers Ken -- Dr. Ken Harvey Adjunct Senior Research Fellow School of Public Health, La Trobe University http://www.medreach.com.au VOIP: +61 (03) 9029 0634; Mobile +61 (04) 1918 1910 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
