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To: Cogito who wrote (130309)	2/6/2010 9:39:38 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (3) of 541945

<<<I guess it's just a question of deciding what the goal is. I know what I would prefer it to be. >>> The goal has to be to make healthcare as efficient as possible. There is no way possible for a profit incentive to make the system more efficient. You can spin it all you want but profit is anything that takes away from providing health care. Worse than pure profit is what the profit motive brings to the table. Take away graft, corruption, marketing, sales, and related G&A expenses you still have duplication of effort in billing and keeping records straight. Every provider has to have their own proprietary system. Just think of the extra costs besides the inability to share information and mistakes being made by adding to the layers of unnecessary complexity. How can you possibly believe that somehow a profit motive can bring efficiency to this type of system. You have to have a wild imagination to believe that the profit component only adds 3% to overall costs.

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