Pharmaceuticals are a small component of overall US health spending. Upcoding is endemic across the entire system; it's endemic across the whole system. Ironically, the complaint you'd be making with upcoding under Advantage is that Medicare should be denying coverage to people; Advantage upcoding involves altering risk scores to authorize more care.
replyWhy wasn't it set up so the government is the insurer. Rather than 3rd partying it. It is akin to federal reserve using wells fargo to store their money.
replyBecause of regulatory capture and lobbying and campaigning to get people to vote against their self interest.
replyThat's communist talk I'm told. We must have lobbyists (remember, money is people, too) instead.
replyBecause that is evil socialism
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