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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: dybdahl who wrote (18362)7/15/2010 11:58:34 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
Most billing is actually not done, because the payer is also the treater, so discussions are not restricted to the detail level of billing.

That really isn't how these decision processes should work. Anywhere. Billing or no.

While the process there would be different from the one used here, billing is an added layer of difficulty, but one that is readily summarized independently of the process for decision making.

Everyone has budgetary constraints, but the best decisions are made when they can be made on the potential return on invested capital, not on how much money government will allocate for a given resource. That is the core of the problem with government health care. And we suffer from it, too -- just to a lesser extent.

Return on invested capital is a far better allocator of resources, IMO. Even with its problems.
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