Posted on 08/10/2017 4:10:31 PM PDT by Twotone
Ancient Egyptians, employing an arduous system of hieroglyphics to represent numbers in their ignorance of zero, displayed a man holding his hands over his head for 1,000,000 in seeming astonishment that numbers ran so high. Americans presented with our national health care bill increasing resemble that hieroglyphic.
We average more than $10,000 per person this year in health care expenses. This collectively amounts to more than $3 trillion, a figure approximating nearly a fifth of our gross domestic product. Few nations pay even half that portion, and similar nations do not expend anything close to such an exorbitantly high percentage of their economy on health care.
Because we pay a high price at the doctor’s office our economy pays a high price. Unless the American people and their elected representatives do something dramatic to limit costs, limits on our economy persist.
The problem remains extraordinarily complex. But some simple solutions exist to bring costs down. Here are 10, which if implemented even in a less than full-throttled way, could bring spending down by $1 trillion:
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Easiest and fastest way to cut health care spending: DONT SPEND THE MONEY, by withholding care.
Wow, I just “fixed” the crisis.
Get government the f*** out of health care, where it does not belong.
The article states 1 in every 40 dollars goes to legal budgets. I have read other articles that state it is closer to 25 - 30 % of heath care costs are driven by legal issues. Mandate that loser pays the legal fees, then see what happens to costs.
Send the illegals back to make THEIR country great.
a significant percentage is administrative, layers and layers of these people.
Forbid drug and medical device manufacturers from advertising on tv and radio.
Opting out of the system is not only a financial necessity, it is becoming a medical necessity.
Look at what’s happening.
Admistrative costs are exploding. This adds nothing to quality and only serves to delay care because of incessant authorizations and Byzantine rules. Electronic records don’t add anything to care other than providing a means for government surveillance.
Politicization of medical research parallels the politicization in climate research. Drug companies promote drugs of dubious value (vaccines, anti cholesterol drugs) and suppress alternative treatments.
Governments and their big insurance partners are directing care supplanting decisions made by doctors and patients.
So, not only do we have expensive healthcare, it’s also ineffective and potentially dangerous. Aside from emergency care for injury, trauma, and pregnancy one should be very wary of accessing the healthcare system.
There’s only one way, a free market.
Let the gov stick to dealing w/fraud, contracts, informing/warning the public, etc..
Cost of medication charged back to Covered California, or, no insurance cash and carry price: Atrovent $500 (walgreens - 1 inhaler each month) (Walmart $336); Ventolin (albuterol) $72 (walgreens - 1 inhaler each month)
Medication from Canada/UK/India: Atrovent $35 Ventolin $18 (generic abuterol $8)
Charging someone $600/month to breathe is criminal. The pharmacy companies are raping the taxpayer, either by grossly overcharging insurance plans (which shows up in increased premiums) or grossly overcharging cash paying customers
Get the Federal government totally out of the fields of Medicine and Insurance.Costs and prices will plummet and quality and access will soar. The bright minds in college will again go into medicine and the master physicians who are already offshore in low cost low price clinics will come home. the airlines will suffer a tiny bit.
Hubby’s partial knee cost more than that. As did my blown thumb joint with torn ligaments.
Having to see the stupid Primary every 6 months for script refills that can be done for a year, is not a necessity. Just their way of padding the bill. And they want a chest x-ray too. Where several vials of blood are taken to screen for cholesterol, kidney and liver functions. Which my ENDO now runs, as she is dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to reading the results.
We don’t even see the Cardio but once a year. I see my ENDO twice a year, as there are ‘regs’ about that because of the Synthyroid I have to take.
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