Mario, you hit this so far out of the park, in my opinion, none of the baseball home run kings of the last 10 years would even come close.
The cost to insure a family has increased but the reimbursement to physicians has not. Where is that extra money going? It is going to people like Bill McGuire, former CEO of United Healthcare, who took a 1.6 billion dollar, retirement package.
I would gladly accept single payer. It would reduce my payroll expense by $34,000, for the employee that has to deal with insurance verification and all of that. It would also save me another 6.5% from having to pay another company to process and submit my claims to the 40+ insurance companies. That would save me another $20,000 - 30,000. Now couple that single payer system with a modest 7% re-imbursement increase, and you have added at least 100,000 to the primary care physicians bottom line. But we can't have that, it's socialism.
As a service provider, I only care who pays me, if the manner in which they pay me affects my bottom line. Right now, having to deal with multiple insurance companies, dramatically affects my bottom line.
