On Wednesday 14 March 2007 09:14, Dr. Ken Harvey wrote: > Medicare is regarded as a technological dinosaur because it still > requires customers to manually submit paper claim forms to a network of > 238 retail branches - a process estimated to cost between $3.50 and $10 > a transaction. > > The government has offered banks 23? a transaction to outsource the > work, nearly five times the present Reserve Bank of Australia regulated > interchange fee ceiling of 5? per inter-bank transaction.
Medicare is firmly entrenched in the dark ages. Not only do they sabotage any attempts at efficient automatization, they also still share a feudalistic mindset where usury is just accepted procedure. Damn them. We have a first class public health system administered by third world style bureaucrats with 16th century mindsets. What a waste. Australia would have such a potential for being true world leader in public health Hoorst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
