">Posted on 11/30/2015 7:23:50 AM PST by all the best
The left will tell you we need more government involvement in healthcare. What they don’t realize is that increased regulation and government involvement are exactly what caused healthcare costs to rise dramatically over the past 30 years.
There are several reasons why government-run healthcare is a disaster. Economist explain how the government subsidized third party payer system separates consumers from prices and how such a system kills competition.
But there is an even more immediate effect– the booming costs of administering a system of complex regulations. Government healthcare necessitates armies of bureaucrats. Take Medicare, for instance: not only does every doctor’s office, hospital, and clinic need to have specialists trained to navigate the complex regulations and billing procedures, but the government must also hire bureaucrats to review that information.
For every series of regulations comes more and more bureaucrats. It has gotten to the point where our healthcare costs are going almost entirely to bureaucrats and not medical professionals.
Take a look at this chart and the mystery of medical costs rising becomes explainable. It also becomes clear that more government is the last thing we need.">
(Excerpt) Read more at thelibertarianrepublic.com ...
My first real job required filling out a “daily report” by 15 minute segments for items we worked each day. My first report was almost 2 pages in length and the procedure was to turn it in promptly to the manager the next morning.
I turned in my first report and my manager asked what the hell is that. I told him my daily. He said look rookie, you give me a report each day that shows your hours spent on one thing, period. I don’t need you wasting time filling some dumb..s report upper management promotes. I know who is screwing off and who is not and don’t need some f..k..g report to tell me that.
Guy had a high school degree only and was the smartest street wise manager I ever worked for.
sometimes “the system” is virtually intended to encourage lying. it might roughly come out in the wash at the end, and it might be way more busy work than justified, but still.
If that graph were not the truth unemployment in Pittsburgh would be at least 35%.
That medical costs got absurdly ridiculous during the First Rapist's presidency is a total coincidence.
Yep.
Total coincidence!
When government employment becomes just another huge welfare scam, this is the inevitable result.
The indolent just get another permanent check.
Yes, that includes regulators and imbecile think tanks...
In addition to elected criminals with sub-60 IQs...
It’s not so much the growth in the number of administrators that’s the problem as it is the lack of growth in the number of physicians.
> “When it was made an EMPLOYER ‘benefit’ is when this all started.”
Yes, the start of the unholy alliance between employers and doctors was a result of FDR’s wage freeze that caused employers to offer doctor visits and other health benefits for the purpose of attracting and retaining top employees.
That graph is not really informative because it’s stated in percent growth and you don’t know what the beginning and ending levels are. If you could find a chart that shows real numbers of physicians and administrators it would be more informative.
Because Obamacare is working as intended.
Lest we not forget, that all these government administrators make about 150% more than us common working folk...
“Evidently, the government ignores its own statistics, or is too stupid (most likely) to make the obvious connection.”
The government is a non profit. It is in the business of spending other people’s money, keeping all the employees it has, and then adding even more. It does not have to show a profit to stay in business, it only costs.
Government is not in the business of getting itself out of business.
Yep, more externally imposed control increases cost and decreases efficiency.
But leftists so love their control that, for them, their increase in power makes it all worth while.
Does that mean government is also a huge, voracious, greedy parasite? /sarc
...a huge, voracious, greedy parasite...about to kill its host.
More people getting checks than people making the money to pay them.
bttt
Nope. More lawyers than doctors. More lawyers than soldiers...
http://www.averyindex.com/lawyers_per_capita.php
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2015/02/law-graduate-overproduction-.html
http://www.legalreform-now.org/menu1_4.htm
That's another biggie of many reasons.
Wild. I guess the real question is what law was passed around 1991 that would spike the requirement for administrators?
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