[GaryCrow]

Health care is so expensive because for every doctor and nurse providing direct patient care there are about 20 administrative people involved in the transaction that have to be paid. Insurance companies, pharmacy benefit managers, etc. all provide no patient care yet take the vast majority of health care dollars. If you want to know where all the money for healthcare is going look at the insurance companies. They’re keeping most of it while rationing care to patients. Look who some of the biggest lobbyists of congress are, that’ll tell you who’s skimming all the money off of healthcare.

[mewzilla]

The NHS is the UK’s largest employer, private or public sector.

All those employees, and the care still sucks.

Guess why.

[kaila]

You are exactly right! The administrative layer is so thick, that actual caregivers are rationed to cover the costs. The government is also to blame by creating the rules and regulations that create the administrative layers. Insurance companies are there to make a profit, not actually taking care of patients.