Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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current health care costs are almost entirely increased by:

1) structural changes: new tests and procedures and drugs, maybe ten percent

2) overhead : cost of corporate structure to HMO, PPO , hospital admin, care regulators, dRG consultants, malpractice, insurance admin, maybe 40%

of the dollar you spend, probably 80% is spent within a hospital, not as outpatients

health care is now a corporate entity , like steel production. the media in 1970 and 1980 wged war on helath care and destroyed it. the big boys recognized it as a profit center that was controlled by individuals , so they social engineered it to get a piece

now for every health care dollar you spend maybe 50% goes to your health.

the site ergo mentioned a while back tries to address this in a very positive way, and kerry probably "might" do something about it.

But once corporatized, there is almost no going back. the "liberal" media, always going against what the curent policiy is, gave you this wonderful change by pounding on physicians and running story after story on fraud, waste, physician undersupply, no regulation of physicians blah blah