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Because in healthcare, finance should be just one of the parameters and not the only metric to be accounted for. If you save US$50M from a US$1M bureaucracy whi
by piva00 2y ago
Because in healthcare, finance should be just one of the parameters and not the only metric to be accounted for. If you save US$50M from a US$1M bureaucracy which killed 5% more patients, is that worth it in medical terms?
Would you be ok if it was one of your loved ones killed by the increased bureaucracy (since inevitably increased bureaucracy creates more chances for people falling into the cracks)?
Of course that healthcare as anything else in society needs to find a balanced budget, the outcomes of its failure are the most extreme ones so perhaps it's ok to save less money if it means more lives will be saved, isn't that the whole purpose of living in a society: to live?
- bb88 2y agoI'm not arguing against that here. But returning profit to the shareholders is the primary goal of a corporation. Couple that with Upton Sinclair's quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it", and I think you get to the heart of the problem.