Posted on 04/05/2017 4:46:26 PM PDT by Wolfie
The health care situation will look vastly different in five years. It will be four point five years beyond the new changes that are coming.
Trump will not let health care fester, even if it isn’t fixed totally at first.
Better days are ahead > IMO.
The author is spot on in my feeble opinion. Most of the current debate is about insurance, the “who pays” side of the equation. What is largely being ignored is the cost of delivering healthcare.
Karl is absolutely right
The way I see it, we've got a demographic disaster looming as the massive population of Baby Boomers enters their 70s and their health care associated largely with old age costs go through the roof. I don't see any political solution.
Better days are ahead > IMO.”
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Ryan Care, apparently purposefully, did not include significant medical care cost savings. Health care costs CURRENTLY are doing far worse than “fester”; health care costs are exploding and “rotting”.
Hopefully the Freedom Caucus will have some success in modifying Ryan Care so that it incorporates changes that will bring down medical care costs. Quite Frankly, Trump seemed to think that the original Ryan Care was just hunky-dory, just as it was.
Better days from a health care cost perspective may not be ahead.
I would venture 80% of what the nation spends on healthcare is not even health related.
obamacare’s effect on healthcare costs absolutely sucks. My BIL had surgery several years ago, total out of pocket for him: $150. Thanks to hammy care’s effect on his employers insurance, a similar surgery he just had cost his family a little over 4,000 out of pocket.
Just like College. No one questions their 8% increase per year.
Watch the cost of drugs and only give stabilization care to working age people who don’t buy insurance.
5 years?
This guy is Polly-Anna optimistic.
I work at a not for profit hospital. Let me tell you...the money isn’t coming to us. Our receipts are down millions halfway through the fiscal year.
look at all the old old people....it takes tons of money to take care of them....I'm 63 so I can say this...
we can admit them to the hospital for everything and anything and yes, we'll keep them alive, but not really living.....
when you see these adds for baby boomers getting checked for Hep C I just want to scream...
we can not afford to pay for millions to get the quick fix at $70,000 a pop...
we're going to have to prioritize everything...
babies and children first...
The biggest inputs into the “cost of delivering healthcare” are the federal requirements and the federal agencies that make those requirements. All those bureaucrats have to be paid at higher than average, indeed, higher than their level in the private world, salaries. Much of that cost is not even considered when we talk about the cost of American medicine because the government pays those people but their jobs depend on the medical industry, the industry they are debauching. This could all be fixed with a Congressional act that simply removes the Federal Government from all facets of medicine and insurance. There is still room for pro-active government input on the patent front and that would be severe economic sanctions against any government that allows drugs on patent to be cloned and sold. That would reduce the prices of new drugs as the USA would no longer be the sole source for getting the R&D paid for.
And most or all of that 80% is government related.
That’s scary.
Here in NJ the government basically accelerated the shuttering of hospitals by first requiring them to treat anyone in their ERs (regardless of their means to pay) and then gradually reducing the reimbursement for those who didn’t/couldn’t pay.
As I understand it, CA has the same problem. Taxpayers are providing “free” healthcare to illegals...
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