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2018-08-01 Economy
No, Single-Payer Reforms Won't Curb Hospital Costs
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-08-01 12:27|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Two major issues drive the cost of health care in the US.

First are illegals and homeless using emergency rooms as primary care physicians. Because those costs are unrecoverable, the hospital smears them across the cost of other services.

Second, hospitals are expensive with their staff of specialists and hospital beds. If a hospital is only 50% occupied, those occupied rooms must bear the cost of the unoccupied beds with their associated staff working at reduced efficiency. Then you have the specialist who only sees three patients a day. His costs are added to the costs of more frequently used specialists.

The entire model of a hospital delivering health care is wrong. These large vertically integrated health care organizations have huge costs of under utilization that are smeared across the rest of the hospital.

A completely different subject is Big Pharma. Possibly the most corrupt, unethical bunch of scum sucking vermin on the planet, even worse than anyone in Congress or the Senate. Their price gouging and accounting games are used to charge huge sums of money for medications.

Of course you have the 80-20 rule in which 80% of the health care resources are consumed by 20% of the people...usually illegals who run their kids to the emergency room for the sniffles and soccer moms who think their kid has every ailment and allergy mentioned on the news.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-08-01 13:58||   2018-08-01 13:58|| Front Page Top

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