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How much of the administrative staff you mention is only needed because hospitals have to work as for profit organizations? And don't forget to add the administ
by danmaz74 7y ago
How much of the administrative staff you mention is only needed because hospitals have to work as for profit organizations? And don't forget to add the administrative staff from the insurance companies themselves.
- ineedasername 7y agoInsurance companies are a separate issue, though some of their administrative functions would be required in any healthcare system. (Certainly not all though). As for hospitals working for-profit, about the only administrative function I can think of that is unique to that model is marketing. I may be missing something, but even so it would be very, very much less than the 50% the author of the article would do away with.
- nugget 7y agoNon profit status isn't an instant fix for a dysfunctional system. Once the profit motive is removed, other incentives take over as primary motivators. The not for profit, Government-run Veterans Affairs hospitals have a higher administrator to physician ratio than most private hospitals and are well known within medicine for inane administrative roadblocks to effective patient care.
- ineedasername 7y agoYes, the profit motive does enforce at least a little pressure on reducing unnecessary overhead. This is of course not universally the case.