I just read Scott Ideson's response to Christine Helfrich's My View (June 6.) Ideson tells us that the amount Blue Cross Blue Shield paid health-care providers to treat their members tripled in the past 10 years. What he neglected to mention was how much more BlueCross BlueShield collected from those same members over those same years.
I have seen what this insurance company pays me go down yearly, and I have seen what it charges for premiums go up yearly.
What that seems to be saying is that administration costs are relatively more important than the actual delivery of health care in our health-care system. This was Helfrich's point.
Dr. Lauren O. Florence, M.D.
Salt Lake City
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