<p>I’m on the Medicare track right now, a slight veer OT. I think Medicare as with anything can differ in quality, provisions, efficiency, depending on where you live. In my area, I can tell you that I find the process far more efficient with Medicare being the primary insurance. My MIL has had A LOT of care and it seems like those practices and places are used to using it and have the processing down pat. With other insurance plans, since these health care providers are dealing with everything under the sun, they may not get it right since they simply cannot keep track of how it works. Medicare is uniform and a lot patients are on it and there is easy access to the rules. Not so private plans like mine. I don’t get all the rules of our plan and we’ve had the same one for some years now, though each year some changes are added. </p>
<p>So yes, as Mini, said, when in a very large single payer system, it is a lot smoother more of the time for that reason Not as many surprises for the providers and they can inform us how things are to be handled, especially those who have a lot of Medicare patients.</p>