T. Marmor on Medicare balance billing

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Theodore R. Marmor, Ph.D., Professor of Public Policy & Management and Professor of Political Science, Yale University School of Management, and author, "The Politics of Medicare," responds to AMA's resolution supporting balance billing of Medicare patients:

Interesting example of regression to 1966 position, with the effort to use the misery of managed care as a rationale. There is no connection between whatever misery managed care has brought and the old dispute about balance billing. Doctors understandably would like to charge whatever they can; it just so happens that financial freedom, professional autonomy, and widespread health insurance are together practically impossible. Sad to see so little learning.

Ted