Might have something to do with this:
Might have something to do with this:
And where’s the graph showing that nobody is ever admitted to the hospital anymore? With all that growth in physicians and administrators!!!
Gosh. Do you think it could be all that? I donno. /s
In our recent hospitalization that lasted nearly 5 days it could have been and should have been more like maybe 3 days. I wrote the hospital, for all they care, that if the standard of management was equal to some of their people and technology their services would have been world class excellent. If I had managed my business they way they manage patients I would be broke and have never retired. Coordination between services is one place to start. Every specialty runs their own show in every respect. Important or even emergency conditions never cross the boundaries of services without someone raising hell. Fortunately, we had a surgeon that did just that with the prima donnas in cardiology.
How is it that every hospital claims they are broke but every major one of them has a massive building program? They claim they are short on beds but the Mercy Hospital we were in had only 2 out of 7 wards on the floor that were being used. Oh wait, that is wrong, one whole ward was dedicated to training.
One of our local rural hospitals closed two weeks ago. The main reason I am told is that medicare / medicade rules strangle them with low reimbursement because of the 22 mile proximity to a regional medical center. Why should this be so? Who do you think influences that kind of rule?
Why complain? Nothing is going to change. Not the best health care in the world but hands down the most expensive and everybody in that system complains they don’t get paid enough.
Beware the medical industrial complex that consumes close to 20% of our GDP. That should be utterly staggering to anyone. It should be a national crisis that any overhead type of public service costs so much. Did George Kaiser and Tricky Dick have anything to do with what it has become? Memory serves me that they did.