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This poster gets it right 100%. In an ideal hospital, you should only have doctors, nurses, nurse assistants, nurse manager, accounting, pharmacy. Think of al
by assblaster 8y ago
This poster gets it right 100%.
In an ideal hospital, you should only have doctors, nurses, nurse assistants, nurse manager, accounting, pharmacy.
Think of all the unnecessary healthcare MBAs that siphon off enormous amounts of resources to generate as much profit as possible to be shared with other healthcare MBAs.
Think of all the suppliers of healthcare goods that try to patent and profit off of unnecessary medical "inventions" which do not make a difference compared to what was done previously.
Think of all the government bureaucrats paid to ration healthcare resources by underpaying for services which burden hospitals and doctors to raise charges for private insured.
Think of all the patients who don't give a crap about their health and refuse to correct their chronic conditions and rather go to the ER when things get really bad.
Think of all the lawyers who profit off of bad outcomes (not malpractice necessarily) which forces hospitals and doctors to practice defensive medicine.
Making everything single payor won't work, because guess what, there will still be a private insurance system for the people who can afford it vs the system for the rest. It doesn't fix anything.
- uberduber 8y agoYou do need some administrators, like the receptionist, someone to manage the janitorial staff, etc. There's now something like 18 administrators for every doctor in a hospital. I think it was barely 5-6 years ago I was complaining because the ratio was 10 to 1. Their salaries are also pretty high, typically in the $250k range.
- assblaster 8y agoThose are all relatively low level though. I think the boom has been in pay and employment of hospital CEO, CFO, CTO, nurse directors, nurse compliance officers, legal, billing departments and supervisors of supervisors. The people who actually deliver care, ie doctors and nurses, are being perpetually marginalized.