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I propose cutting administrative costs by 90%. A bunch of paper pushers in meetings all day making too much money driving up the cost of everything they touch.
by GiorgioG 3y ago
I propose cutting administrative costs by 90%. A bunch of paper pushers in meetings all day making too much money driving up the cost of everything they touch.
- nradov 3y agoThat is not a realistic proposal. What specific costs can be eliminated?
- rpmisms 3y agoJust layoff hospital staff until it hurts. Easy.
- nradov 3y agoWhich staff?
- rpmisms 3y agoAnyone who can't explain what they do in a single sentence.
- nl 3y ago> Just layoff hospital staff until it hurts. This is so obviously the wrong answer it is painful that anyone would write it down even in an internet forum. https://dd17w042cevyt.cloudfront.net/pdf/vision/healthcare-dollars/healthcare-dollars-visualization.pdf https://dd17w042cevyt.cloudfront.net/pdf/vision/healthcare-d... shows that while it is easy to blame administrative costs for healthcare, most money goes to "patient benefits" This sounds great, but really what it is doing is transferring money to pharam company profits: https://www.zippia.com/advice/us-pharmaceutical-statistics/ https://www.zippia.com/advice/us-pharmaceutical-statistics/ > Easy. It really isn't.
- the_why_of_y 3y agoThat's a good area to start, although 90% might be optimistic. See this paper: Pozen, Alexis and David M. Cutler. 2010. Medical spending differences in the United States and Canada: The role of prices, procedures, and administrative expenses. Inquiry 47(2): 124-134. https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/5343032/Medical%20Spending%20Differences%20in%20the%20U.S.%20and%20Canada.pdf?sequence=1 https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/5343032/Medical%... Look at Table 1 and Table 2, page 19/20; the difference in cost due to salaries/income is $490 per capita, the difference in cost due to administrative overhead is $616 per capita.