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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (6843)6/1/2009 8:02:47 AM
From: skinowski   of 42652
 
The preliminary guestimate, though, is that I'm not costing BCBS much at all and my doctors aren't being enriched much at all.

And yet, the costs are great. Found this interesting PDF from Kaiser -- Total health care cost per Medicare beneficiary in 2005 was just about 14.5 thousand dollars - and growing. 1/2 of it came from Medicare, 17% directly out of pocket, and most of the balance from Medicaid, Medigap and other third parties.

kff.org

Obviously, there must be an enormous amount of waste and inefficiency. This problem will not get solved by extending membership to more people. Like Chrysler and GM, the system will probably have to go bankrupt before we'll be ready to talk about meaningful changes.
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