claim: "there's a 1.5 percent to 2 percent overhead in medicare. the insurance companies have a 20 percent to 30 percent overhead."
author: barbara boxer
evidence_1: mar 9, 2017 ... it's all about the overhead and profit. ... by contrast, medicare, the largest u.s. public insurer, paid just 1.5 percent of its budget to administer traditional insurance plans for seniors and workers ... the rest of medicare's budget went to paying doctors, hospitals, drug companies and other health care providers.
evidence_2: ... go up 400 percent and their tax rates go down 40 percent." — politifact national on wednesday, september 21st, 2011. half-true. there's a difference, but not quite that big. barbara boxer · "there's a 1.5 percent to 2 percent overhead in medicare. the insurance companies have a 20 percent to 30 percent overhead.".
evidence_3: nov 13, 2014 ... in 1993, administrative personnel accounted for 27% of the health care workforce, a 40% increase over 1968 [2]. similarly, administrative costs as a percentage of total health care spending more than doubled between 1980 and 2010 [3]. private insurers' overhead costs have also increased sharply, rising ...
evidence_4: feb 15, 2013 ... issues, including whether allowing insurance companies to participate .... the consulting firm lewin inc. has used medicare's 2 percent overhead .... section. milliman notes, “there is of course a subjective element to this allocation because costs are estimated from other parts of the federal bud- get. but this ...
evidence_5: apr 8, 2015 ... their administrative overhead is more than five times higher than that of the single-payer program in two canadian provinces (6); the overhead of private medicare advantage plans averages 19 percent vs. the 1.5 percent for traditional medicare. (7) although the aca set limits of 20 percent for overhead in ...