Az, I am comparing apples to oranges. But so are you. That was my point. I am not a big fan of government doing things better than anyone else. I work in the medical field as a physical therapist, so I can give you first hand knowledge of some crazy rules. Case in point. If a patient comes to me in my private practice for physical therapy, there is an $1,880 dollar cap on them receiving outpatient physical therapy. If that same patient goes to a hospital based physical therapy clinic, then there is no cap. Do they provide better therapy? Are they more efficient? No and no. They have better lobbyists than I do.
I also do some part time work at a nursing home. Medicare has cut back significantly on what it pays for and how it pays for it. I have been doing this for almost 20 years and can honeslty say they are actually saving some money by closing some really stupid loopholes that allowed for waste and borderline fraud.
Some of rules are stupid, Some are good. I am not willing to through the baby out with the bathwater, I just want special interest groups to stay out of it and let rules get applied evenly.
