(11-04-2018, 09:10 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(11-03-2018, 06:06 PM)mikesez Wrote: There is no single silver bullet.
The way insurance, both private and Medicare, is structured encourages a lot of administrative overhead especially at the hospital and inpatient physician level. It encourages a lot of waste in sending codes back and forth. The government could encourage more capitation, and that could really help, but I'm not sure.
It would also really help if we made it easier to become a doctor. It shouldn't take so many years of education and residency.  More people would do it and as the supply of physician labor increases the cost per unit will go down and the individual doctors will have more life satisfaction is they won't be expected to work so many hours.

And that's another way in which government meddling in healthcare has raised costs and cut service. In 1994 or '95 Clinton passed a bill to pay medical schools to cut back on the number of doctors they graduated. Since their boy Bill signed it, the mainstream media never criticized the incredibly stupid action.

If government gets even a toe in the door, it will find a way to screw things up.

Yes it was a bill passed by the Clinton administration.  Technically what it did was reduce the number of residency positions that would be subsidized by Medicare. hospitals and other medical practices have been free all along to take on more residents, without a government subsidy, but they don't want to get blackballed by the AMA.
so they just take the extra money and spend it on Celebrity Cruises and Premier Golf Club memberships and try not to think too much about it.

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