The Cellar - View Single Post - Impeding changes to our Health Care system

ZenGum · 08-06-2012, 06:53 PM

I've mentioned this about a gazillion posts back, but ...

The US system spends around 25% of the "health care" budget on administration. In other OECD countries that is around 10%, in Taiwan, a tad over 1%.

The US system has the most extreme liability/compensation arrangements, adding huge liability insurance costs, and forcing doctors to do exhaustive and expensive testing to rule out those one-in-a-million diseases, to cover their asses.

AFAIK, the current changes address neither of these things.

08-06-2012, 06:53 PM	#3014
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I've mentioned this about a gazillion posts back, but ... The US system spends around 25% of the "health care" budget on administration. In other OECD countries that is around 10%, in Taiwan, a tad over 1%. The US system has the most extreme liability/compensation arrangements, adding huge liability insurance costs, and forcing doctors to do exhaustive and expensive testing to rule out those one-in-a-million diseases, to cover their asses. AFAIK, the current changes address neither of these things. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.