Re:Don’t Discriminate Against Mutants Like Me
by icebraining on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @04:31PM
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However, if 10 companies each need to check for fraud they may investigate 10 cases each, but with 10 X 10 that's still more effort.
Or they'll coordinate to avoid the duplication, usually by having some kind of industry society/non-profit that does the checking.
However, as your reduce the cost of providing healthcare with single payer systems you increase society's ability to provide high quality healthcare. Remember, if a doctor sees 1000 people a month then you can detect fraud by randomly sampling 20 cases. However, if 10 companies each need to check for fraud they may investigate 10 cases each, but with 10 X 10 that's still more effort. Further, they are each going to try and cost shift to the others, which is an expensive zero sum game.