Yes some people in the medical industry make very good money. Usually they have studied for many many years and spent hundreds of thousands on their education and training.
They also work holidays, weekends, nights when other people are with their families.
On top of which the massive regulations for the healthcare industry are astounding. A few hundred thousand pages of various regulations which change constantly. Added on top of a legal system which makes it easy to sue them for any imagined infraction.
The wasted money isn’t in the healthcare system, its in the insurance companies.
Obamacare is one plank of a real-life Directive 10-289.
“The wasted money isn’t in the healthcare system, its in the insurance companies.”
Ain’t that the truth!
Somehow I don't think Fry is working holidays, nights, or weekends much.
The wasted money isn’t in the healthcare system, its in the insurance companies.
There is waste and inefficiencies and a need to keep investors happy through ever-increasing profits at all levels of the healthcare system. That's why Obamacare won't do a thing to reign in costs.
One of my favorites in the 'healthcare' debate, blame someone else! Insurance is the culprit! Or the billions spent on medical billing? Or health insurance profits, or malpractice insurance profits or regulations or monopolistic drug companies, or...
No one entity is responsible for the skyrocketing costs (or rather, that was the case, now the feds are to be blamed with PelosiCare...) But there is no leverage in the marketplace to reduce costs. Insurance companies have pretty much found that they can constantly raise premiums on doctors and patients, hospitals raise the street prices on their services and raise in network costs by a similar amount with near impunity. And I've yet to hear a medical billing company actually lowering costs, or medical supplies actually lowering prices.
Free markets do not work when there is no opposing leverage. And with PelosiCare, it's party time! Everyone forced to go through an insurance policy to access medical care! Prices are hidden for everyone! Except that monthly premium - that's the fault of Democrats or Republicans or...Nancy Pelosi. Certainly not the health care industry.
I fell off the step ladder and cut my head open. The educated and trained physician stood in the doorway, had me take off the bandage I'd put on to stop the bleeding and diagnosed the inch and a half gash didn't need his attention other than to accept the payment. He never came into the room.
Then there was the doctor who called over a year after my grandmother had died to say she was over due for her checkup. He had been there when she died.
And the doctor here who has parents sign for welfare to pay for their kids' immunizations even though she was getting the payment from private insurance and writes them up for potential child abuse if a parent dares questions her. I turned her in 20 years ago and has evern been done.
Yes, some people in the medical industry do indeed make very good money.