Posted on 09/26/2025 2:50:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Democrats threaten government shut-down over Medicaid cuts; as Americans are bracing for another increase in their healthcare costs; and as patients wait an average maximum of 132 days to see a primary care doctor, Americans can’t seem to wake up from the nightmare called U.S. healthcare.
The rise in insurance premium costs is estimated at 7–10 percent next year. This is on top of already unaffordable family spending with the average American family expending $32,066 on healthcare in 2024 according to Milliman Medical Index.
Faced with increasing pressure on their bottom lines, employers are passing these additional expenses on to employees with reduced benefits, narrower medical panels (which means longer wait times), plus higher deductibles and copays.
Republicans plan cuts to Medicaid that Democrats and the complicit media say these cuts will “hurt families,” “increase uncompensated care,” “and lead to thousands of deaths.” Biden’s 2021–2023 lockdowns threw millions of people out of work. Unemployment made them ineligible for employer-supported health insurance. Biden then expanded eligibility, adding 17 million Americans to Medicaid rolls. More than 60 percent of these individuals have returned to work and become (again) eligible for employer-provided insurance. Cutting them from Medicaid rolls will actually increase funds available to pay for those who truly need Medicaid.
NPR business analyst Maria Aspan is clear about whom she blames for elevated costs: “insurers, drug companies and your employer,” along with the Trump administration that has “government-sponsored alternatives” it won’t use, she says.
Last year, the U.S. spent $4.8 trillion on its healthcare system. That amount is greater than the entire GDP ($4.7 trillion) of the third-most productive nation on earth, Germany.
Where is all that money going? Who is getting rich, or richer, from Americans’ “unsustainable” (Obama) healthcare spending? Doctors? Big Pharma? Insurance? Hospitals?
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HERE’s THE CULPRIT:
While each of the above does take a piece of the healthcare “pie,” none comes close to the one entity that consumes more than 50 percent of all U.S. healthcare spending.
Of the $4.8 trillion, more than half, that’s right, at least $2.4 trillion, went to pay the federal BURRDEN — Bureaucracy, Unnecessary Rules and Regulations, Directives, Enforcement, and Noncompliance activities. Our own government denied Americans more than two trillion dollars’ worth of patient care to pay...ITSELF!
The growth of the nonclinical healthcare workforce explains where the BURRDEN money is going — to accountants, administrators, authorization agents, compliance officers, lawyers (lots of lawyers), managers, reviewers, and a multitude of people who never touch a patient. From 1970 to 2020, the number of physicians increased approximately 100 percent.
As a result of Congress passing innumerable healthcare Acts with familiar names like Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, the number of healthcare nonclinical workers — bureaucrats — increased by more than 4,400 percent! Taxpayer dollars funded the salaries and fringe benefits of 44 bureaucrats for every doctor.
yeah, I believe it. The 44 to 1 ratio is probably a little low though. It’s like when they tell us that there are 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 illegals in the United States
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The #1 Waster of Healthcare Dollars and How to Stop It
09/26/2025 4:39:16 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 25 replies
American Thinker ^ | 26 Sep, 2025 | Deane Waldman
Washington steals HALF of healthcare spending! As Democrats threaten government shut-down over Medicaid cuts; as Americans are bracing for another increase in their healthcare costs; and as patients wait an average maximum of 132 days to see a primary care doctor, Americans can’t seem to wake up from the nightmare called U.S. healthcare. The rise in insurance premium costs is estimated at 7–10 percent next year. This is on top of already unaffordable family spending with the average American family expending $32,066 on healthcare in 2024 according to Milliman Medical Index. Faced with increasing pressure on their bottom lines, employers...
I read that the British health care system was the second-largest civilian employer in the world, second only to the Indian railway system.
“In 2023 and 2024, 80 percent of marketplace enrollees could find a plan for $10 or less per month on HealthCare.gov, the federal marketplace that operates in 31 states (19 states and the District of Columbia run their own marketplaces).”
“The enhanced subsidies have translated into higher enrollment in ACA marketplace plans and fewer uninsured people. They helped increase enrollment in the marketplaces from 12 million in 2021 to a record 24.2 million in 2025.”
FTA
Where is all that money going? Who is getting rich, or richer, from (Obama) healthcare spending?
Of the $4.8 trillion, more than half, that’s right, at least $2.4 trillion, went to pay the federal BURDEN — Bureaucracy, Unnecessary Rules and Regulations, Directives, Enforcement, and Noncompliance activities. Our own government denied Americans more than two trillion dollars’ worth of patient care to pay...itself.
The growth of the nonclinical healthcare workforce explains where the BURRDEN money is going — to accountants, administrators, authorization agents, compliance officers, lawyers (lots of lawyers), managers, reviewers, and a multitude of people who never touch a patient. From 1970 to 2020, the number of physicians increased approximately 100 percent.
As a result of Congress passing innumerable healthcare Acts with familiar names like Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, the number of healthcare nonclinical workers — bureaucrats — increased by more than 4,400 percent! Taxpayer dollars funded the salaries and fringe benefits of 44 bureaucrats for every doctor.
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I find this stat very hard to believe. It certainly does not reflect my own experience through the years and today.
doctors and lawyers are the only professionals that legally get away with calling what they do “practice”...
And they both run with near equal efficiency, don’t they?
That’s disgusting. I knew it was very bad, but that puts it in perspective.
Stop letting Hillary get any more face lifts.
That will save a bunch of $$$
The bulk of those administrative costs are to keep people from ripping off the system. In other words, consider it as the price of immorality. Think of how much richer we’d be if everybody believed they’d go to hell for eternity for a mere act of dishonesty.
Ah, no. There are over a million MDs in the US, and healthcare bureaucrats are not nearly a quarter of our national workforce.
A lot of Brits I met in the USA love their healthcare system. The keep telling me that if you get a heart attack and need to be hospitalized, you pay only the equivalent of a few hundred dollars for top notched care whereas here, it could bankrupt you and even if you have insurance, you have to fight them over the bill that’s being charged after your deductible.
They tell me that the private insurance system in the USA is designed to MAXIMIZE profits for the health insurance companies and your health is secondary and that’s the flaw in our system.
And they tell me that the American system is the only one of its kind in the world — designed for the profit of companies like UHC and its shareholders like Warren Buffet. Most other developed countries aren’t like that.
The Brits also criticize our system for spending more than any country in the world as a percent of GDP and STILL the USA has lower average lifespans than most developed countries.
Healthcare delayed is healthcare denied—and the wait times for even really serious stuff in the UK are frightening (unless you know someone to game the system for you).
The Brits had the manhood beaten out of them with their succession of wars.
“Medicare Premium Bill....Current Premium Due...Total Amount Due $555.00”
That’s from a document that was and now is on my dining room table.
That was $185/month - for nothing at all in my case.
If you want “Medicare for All” it would be $185/month per person.
It would be reasonable to prorate the premium by age, so a kid about a tenth my age would have a ~$19/month premium.
I’ve heard they have some long wait times before your appt.
Like the VA.
Maybe in Great Britain.
My wife is dead because of this. After she went into the hospital, they tried to cut off her care every single week. I had to file appeals weekly.
She finally got tired of dealing with it and chose hospice to just die.
Meanwhile illegals were being given everything including free healthcare with no strings under biden.
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