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If americans are overpaying for health insurance, where does that money go? I heard nurses and doctors aren't paid enough. So does this money go to pay for bac
by itake 5y ago
If americans are overpaying for health insurance, where does that money go?
I heard nurses and doctors aren't paid enough. So does this money go to pay for backoffice hospital services? What happens if we reduce the cost of healthcare? will people lost their jobs? Do the "owners" of hospital or pharma equity get smaller dividends?
- FpUser 5y ago>"If americans are overpaying for health insurance, where does that money go?" Owners and other shareholders
- m_ke 5y agohttps://caas.athenahealth.com/knowledge-hub/sites/insight/files/inline-images/Chart.jpg https://caas.athenahealth.com/knowledge-hub/sites/insight/fi...
- Ekaros 5y agoAdministration? All of the paper work, negotiation and overly complicated regulatory framework must be hugely inefficient. And loss of jobs in that type of bureaucracy is exactly the thing I wouldn't lose sleep over. It's clearly non-productive work that shouldn't happen in first place.
- antisthenes 5y agoInsurance companies and hospitals employing tens of thousands of people who play endless cat-and-mouse games of trying to avoid paying for actual healthcare and "optimizing" so that they don't end up holding the bag.
- itake 5y agoso the cost of lowering costs will be that people lose their jobs?
- antisthenes 5y agoYes, absolutely people will lose their jobs. Just like if you gut the military-industrial complex people will lose their jobs. That's what makes it so hard politically to do anything about it.