Comments on: EU Rota Analyzes Health Care Spending in Various Countries (Who Comes Out Best, and What about Results?) http://www.bizzyblog.com/2005/10/11/eu-rota-analyzes-health-care-spending/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2005/10/11/eu-rota-analyzes-health-care-spending/#comment-1897 TBlumer Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:04:46 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=652#comment-1897 #1, you make good points about Medicaid being the provider of last resort for very expensive procedures and LTC. Even with that considered, $11,000 per year per covered person is absurd. A legislative contact in Ohio told me that a lot of the problem has to do with marginal-value medical procedures and practitioners being included in Medicaid (chiropractic is one cited) and powerful lobbies from those groups that make sure they don't get reined in. #1, you make good points about Medicaid being the provider of last resort for very expensive procedures and LTC. Even with that considered, $11,000 per year per covered person is absurd.

A legislative contact in Ohio told me that a lot of the problem has to do with marginal-value medical procedures and practitioners being included in Medicaid (chiropractic is one cited) and powerful lobbies from those groups that make sure they don’t get reined in.

]]> By: meep http://www.bizzyblog.com/2005/10/11/eu-rota-analyzes-health-care-spending/#comment-1890 meep Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:02:12 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=652#comment-1890 I'm not about to blame all the problems in NY's Medicaid on fraud or govt waste yet... the problem is that certain medical problems pretty much get you put on govt health care. For example - dialysis or other kidney problems. Much of nursing home care is from the Medicaid system (Medicare doesn't cover LTC, and LTC insurance has per day limits, and sometimes lifetime limits that don't really cover that much, usually...for affordable premiums, you need to be buying the insurance decades before you're likely to use the benefits. And we know how good the govt is in long-term savings.) However, this being govt money, I'm appalled that they can't track what this money is actually being spent on, and how much is gobbled up in fraud. I’m not about to blame all the problems in NY’s Medicaid on fraud or govt waste yet… the problem is that certain medical problems pretty much get you put on govt health care. For example - dialysis or other kidney problems. Much of nursing home care is from the Medicaid system (Medicare doesn’t cover LTC, and LTC insurance has per day limits, and sometimes lifetime limits that don’t really cover that much, usually…for affordable premiums, you need to be buying the insurance decades before you’re likely to use the benefits. And we know how good the govt is in long-term savings.)

However, this being govt money, I’m appalled that they can’t track what this money is actually being spent on, and how much is gobbled up in fraud.

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