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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Alighieri who wrote (13637)	2/28/2010 10:53:27 AM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 42652

Healthcare is very labor intensive - most of the costs are people's salaries. I'd like to see a comparison of the numbers of people per capita) making a living in healthcare in different nations, along with a comparison of their salaries . This will probably account for the bulk of the cost differences. If you walk into any hospital in the US, you'll encounter crowds of people who are busy working - but make no contribution to patient care whatsoever. Most of them a laboring trying to comply with demands from HCFA, H2S, county, state health depts, etc. Oh, don't forget the famous Joint Commission, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. Add to that the culture of defensive medicine with all the questionable testing and hospital admissions (at a cost of several K's each). What we need is massive DEregulation - AND simplification. We need to get the government and the lawyers out of the examining room - because their presence is very expensive. Unless this is done, all those health reform bills are BS - and little more than politicians playing their favorite games.

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