Discount Walkers Is This Why Government Run Healthcare Will Never Be Less Expensive?

Is this why government run healthcare will never be less expensive? - discount walkers

Wheelchairs and walkers, and orthopedic shoes, needles, purchase health insurance for tens of thousands of daily products for older Americans. And could be the largest purchaser of medical products, one would assume that leastget a volume discount.

Not so. In fact, Medicare does not even at the best price.

According to its own auditors, know more than Medicare pays for almost everything you buy. Here are some examples:

- $ 7215 for renting an oxygen concentrator, if the purchase price is $ 600.

- 4018 $ for a standard wheelchair, while the private sector pays $ 1048.

- $ 1825 for a hospital bed, compared with an Internet Price $ 1071.

- $ 3335 for a respiratory pump, compared with a retail price of $ 1987th

- $ 82 for a kit for diabetics, rather than a price of $ 47 on the net.

In the past year tried the Health and Human Services Department, will replace its archaic fixed-price fee of 10 products commonly purchased with a purchasing program in 10 cities. The ministry saidMedicare could save $ 125 million in one year, or 1 billion U.S. if it is approved at the national level. But Congress intervened to stop it.

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