When a system is fundamentally broken, beginning to end, it creates problems, perverse incentives for all the actors in that healthcare ecosystem. Right? So if there's, you know, we just had a conversation about Medicare reimbursement. Many of your, the entities that you all work with get reimbursed by the federal government for the Medicare patients that you see, but they haven't increased the reimbursement rates, but the cost of care has gone up. So what do the health care systems do? They charge more to the non Medicare patients, right? So they can get more money to cover their bills. (16:31–16:43)
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Asserts that Medicare reimbursement rates have not increased despite rising healthcare costs.
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