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Council on Affordable Health Insurance Reviews Medicare

February 14, 2007 By Jay Norris

Even the obviously biased Council on Affordable Health Insurance tackled the claim that

“overhead for Medicare,” says Dr. Stephen Rous of Brown University, a single-payer advocate, “is 1 percent to 2 percent. The overhead for various private insurance plans (HMOs, etc.) is 15 percent to 25 percent.”

… and still came up with a much lower amount for Medicare, 5.2 percent, than the stated 15-25% for private insurers………

For an interesting discussion on the Denver Rocky Mountain News editorial, visit The Health Care Blog:
http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2007/02/policy_not_so_f.html

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About Jay Norris

Jay operates a health insurance brokerage in Colorado, where he helps individuals and small groups obtain and maintain health insurance coverage, provides data analysis, and creates visualizations that are easily understood by consumers and other stakeholders in Colorado’s health insurance market.

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