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Doctors, surgeons, nurses, lab techs, hospital bureaucracy and staff, etc.... All of these people need to get paid, and in the US they get paid very well. Hig
by meri_dian 9y ago
Doctors, surgeons, nurses, lab techs, hospital bureaucracy and staff, etc....
All of these people need to get paid, and in the US they get paid very well.
High health care costs are not a mystery or a conspiracy. There are just many people in the industry that make a lot of money, and they charge high fees to maintain their incomes.
- pas 9y agoThere's too much money in the system, both private and public, thus supply-and-demand equilibrium results in high costs. And the supply is carefully limited by healthcare providers. (The middleman takes the profit, so why would the number of actual doctors increase?)
- hackeraccount 9y agoThat's such a simple thing and yet no one seems to acknowledge it. Look at Obamacare, it's going to lower health care costs. How? Savings! What does that mean? Everyone you don't like won't make as much money. All the people you like will keep getting paid. I understand we all hate health insurance and pharmaceutical CEO's but taking them out back and shooting them will save less then is commonly understood. The same goes for money wasted on advertising. Saving money on health care is (to repeat an oft told joke) like going to heaven. Everyone (Republicans and Democrats both) wants to do it but no one wants to die.
- brohee 9y agoThe hospital bureaucracy is out of control in the US. See http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/in-the-literature/2014/sep/hospital-administrative-costs http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/in-the-literatu... As for the cause, start with https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/sunday-review/doctors-salaries-are-not-the-big-cost.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/sunday-review/doctors-sal...
- saint_fiasco 9y agoThey probably need that income to pay their debts. Becoming a doctor is not cheap.