So you've got Medicare, which is reimbursing doctors at 80 cents on the dollar, which means that somebody's got to make up the 20 cents. So we do a cost shift and shift that 20 cents into Medicare and dump that cost onto people who have private insurance, right?
The speaker is discussing the financial implications of Medicare reimbursement rates.
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