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Implementing a Universal Healthcare System Costs Less, Provides Better Care
The U.S. spends more money on administrative costs than anywhere in the world, according to a recent article in Health Affairs
By Samuel Metz, M.D.
The Lund Report (Portland, Ore.), Nov. 11, 2014
Honoring a rather unpleasant tradition, the September issue of Health Affairs published yet another peer-reviewed study confirming that administrative costs in the U.S. healthcare system are the highest in the world. These administrative costs do not improve patient care. They pay for more administrators.
Each American physician requires 10 administrators to stay in business. Why does American healthcare require twice as many administrators as any other healthcare system?
Because these additional administrators perform a function totally unnecessary in other countries: They restrict access to healthcare and limit benefits of patients who do gain access.
If restricting access and limiting benefits produced a healthier population at lower cost, then Americans could be proud of our massive number of administrators. But the U.S. does not have a healthier population and our healthcare is not inexpensive. In fact, our public health is the worst in the developed world, and our healthcare system is the most expensive of any nation on the planet.
Some blame government bureaucracies for these excessive administrative costs. But let’s not be hasty. Per patient, private insurance overhead exceeds that of Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA – combined. We may have doubts about our government to spend money in other areas, but when it comes to reducing the administrative costs of health care, government programs are ten times as efficient as private insurance.
Restricting access and limiting care is an expensive process, consuming more money than we would spend simply providing unrestricted access and treating all treatable diseases. How do we know? Because every healthcare system in the world that implements universal care without limiting benefits ultimately provides better care to more people for less money.
Where does our private insurance model lead us astray? The primary goal of insurance companies, like all other businesses, is to make more money than they spend. But an insurance company cannot stay solvent selling comprehensive policies at affordable prices to people who will get sick. So insurance companies spend a lot of money to avoid populations that include sick people, to shift costs to patients, to limit benefits, and to exclude physicians who care for patients with expensive diseases (e.g., AIDS, cancer). After all, who will buy a policy that lets you go broke before you get better?
Implementing a Universal Healthcare System Costs Less, Provides Better Care | Physicians for a National Health Program
Physicians find the system that promises to pay them fat wages favorable?
Not shit... and again if you are stupid enough to think anyone falls for this revealing display of corruption, you are dumb. When did physicians turn into policy specialists anyway? This is laughably bad display of ignorance.
But please, do keep believing that initiating massively costly programs by a massively inefficient organization is somehow going to save money, especially for the young who would pay for it all and receive little if any benefit. Personally I rather believe in unicorns...
So, you got nothing.....
Wrong, I already responded to that shitty opinion piece. But given that it doesn't have much facts nor arguments, just opinions based on fairy-tales, I don't see why there should even be a response.
It's absolute insanity to think that the young people could save money by paying for more of your health care. This is the sort of absurd bullshit that leftists always convince themselves of. "By getting pillaged we are all better of, tee-hee": No one buys this bullshit in this day and age.
They would be paying for their own and considering that I am paying for many of them that receive care now it will be fine.
You pay one dollar and expect to receive 120 trillion. Nothing is quite so unoriginal as the famous, left wing false equivalency:
But please, do pretend that you are doing people a favor by raping them. Ultimately no one is fooled as the bills come due, but it sure is interesting to watch how misguided people can be.
Physicians find the system that promises to pay them fat wages favorable?
Not shit... and again if you are stupid enough to think anyone falls for this revealing display of corruption, you are dumb. When did physicians turn into policy specialists anyway? This is laughably bad display of ignorance.
But please, do keep believing that initiating massively costly programs by a massively inefficient organization is somehow going to save money, especially for the young who would pay for it all and receive little if any benefit. Personally I rather believe in unicorns...
So, you got nothing.....
Wrong, I already responded to that shitty opinion piece. But given that it doesn't have much facts nor arguments, just opinions based on fairy-tales, I don't see why there should even be a response.
It's absolute insanity to think that the young people could save money by paying for more of your health care. This is the sort of absurd bullshit that leftists always convince themselves of. "By getting pillaged we are all better of, tee-hee": No one buys this bullshit in this day and age.
They would be paying for their own and considering that I am paying for many of them that receive care now it will be fine.
You pay one dollar and expect to receive 120 trillion. Nothing is quite so unoriginal as the famous, left wing false equivalency:
But please, do pretend that you are doing people a favor by raping them. Ultimately no one is fooled as the bills come due, but it sure is interesting to watch how misguided people can be.
Try again. Insurance companies serve no purpose.
So, you got nothing.....
Wrong, I already responded to that shitty opinion piece. But given that it doesn't have much facts nor arguments, just opinions based on fairy-tales, I don't see why there should even be a response.
It's absolute insanity to think that the young people could save money by paying for more of your health care. This is the sort of absurd bullshit that leftists always convince themselves of. "By getting pillaged we are all better of, tee-hee": No one buys this bullshit in this day and age.
They would be paying for their own and considering that I am paying for many of them that receive care now it will be fine.
You pay one dollar and expect to receive 120 trillion. Nothing is quite so unoriginal as the famous, left wing false equivalency:
But please, do pretend that you are doing people a favor by raping them. Ultimately no one is fooled as the bills come due, but it sure is interesting to watch how misguided people can be.
Try again. Insurance companies serve no purpose.
Oh my lord, more ideological drivel.
Of course insurance companies serve a purpose. But I am not going to teach you what insurance companies are or what purpose they serve. For such basic thing you will have to read some rudimentary textbook on insurance.
But of course, you having never worked in the field, or never having understood even the basics, it's easy to declare that insurance companies serve no purpose as a completely clueless idiot. It truly is as if Hellen Keller advised Mozart that violins serve no purpose. Truly astoundingly retarded.
A coalition of Tennessee patient and health care provider groups backed by major U.S. drug companies is behind a bill that would stop insurance companies from switching the medications they cover to cheaper substitutes midway through a coverage year.The wackadoc is in the emergency care staffing business.
He does not give a hoot about anybody's soul.
He wants to make the poor go to emergency rooms so that he can make a profit.
The Reliable Coverage Act would require insurance companies to keep providing the same medication coverage they promise when enrollees sign up each year. Currently insurers can change the medications they cover midway through an enrollment year by ending coverage of a particular drug entirely, which increases out-of-pocket costs for a drug or requires additional approval by the insurance company before a drug is covered.
The bill, introduced last week by Sen. Mark Green, R-Clarksville, and Rep. Bryan Terry, R-Murfreesboro, would provide a direct financial benefit to the nation's drug companies, which have been criticized for sharply raising prices for medications that have long been on the market. But Green and Terry, both physicians, said in a news release the legislation is needed to make sure insurance companies follow through on a promise.
Tennessee bill would nix drug swaps by insurers, benefit drug industry
So, do you have a problem with this or it is simply to deflect further from your failed thread premise?
I don't have a failed premise. He needs to go. Yes, it's a problem.
Couldn't read and process my post can you? Typical LWNJ.
Have you ever read the Constitution about there not being a religious test to hold any office?
Didn't think so!
Actually Twat- I understand the Constitution just fine. What I dislike is anyone who is proposing putting "free" medical clinics in churches so they can get God.
No, you obviously do not, or at least what you posted indicates you do not.
Since he is not your representative, you can merely stuff your complaints where the sun does not shine.
Grow up.
I grew up a long time ago. When are you going to learn to read?
No. I don't think you did grow up. You have anything intelligent to say or are you just here to troll?
A coalition of Tennessee patient and health care provider groups backed by major U.S. drug companies is behind a bill that would stop insurance companies from switching the medications they cover to cheaper substitutes midway through a coverage year.The wackadoc is in the emergency care staffing business.
He does not give a hoot about anybody's soul.
He wants to make the poor go to emergency rooms so that he can make a profit.
The Reliable Coverage Act would require insurance companies to keep providing the same medication coverage they promise when enrollees sign up each year. Currently insurers can change the medications they cover midway through an enrollment year by ending coverage of a particular drug entirely, which increases out-of-pocket costs for a drug or requires additional approval by the insurance company before a drug is covered.
The bill, introduced last week by Sen. Mark Green, R-Clarksville, and Rep. Bryan Terry, R-Murfreesboro, would provide a direct financial benefit to the nation's drug companies, which have been criticized for sharply raising prices for medications that have long been on the market. But Green and Terry, both physicians, said in a news release the legislation is needed to make sure insurance companies follow through on a promise.
Tennessee bill would nix drug swaps by insurers, benefit drug industry
So, do you have a problem with this or it is simply to deflect further from your failed thread premise?
I don't have a failed premise. He needs to go. Yes, it's a problem.
He needs to go where? Why is that any of your responsibility or concern? Do you live in his district in Tennessee? If so, run against him!
If not, take your anti-religious attitude and shove it!
Actually Twat- I understand the Constitution just fine. What I dislike is anyone who is proposing putting "free" medical clinics in churches so they can get God.
No, you obviously do not, or at least what you posted indicates you do not.
Since he is not your representative, you can merely stuff your complaints where the sun does not shine.
Grow up.
I grew up a long time ago. When are you going to learn to read?
No. I don't think you did grow up. You have anything intelligent to say or are you just here to troll?
I am here to expose your bigotry. Mission accomplished.
Steve Spurrier on the Alabama library fire.Couldn't read and process my post can you? Typical LWNJ.
Have you ever read the Constitution about there not being a religious test to hold any office?
Didn't think so!
Actually Twat- I understand the Constitution just fine. What I dislike is anyone who is proposing putting "free" medical clinics in churches so they can get God.
No, you obviously do not, or at least what you posted indicates you do not.
Since he is not your representative, you can merely stuff your complaints where the sun does not shine.
Grow up.
I grew up a long time ago. When are you going to learn to read?
On a fire at the Auburn library that destroyed 20 books: “The real tragedy was that 15 hadn’t been colored yet.”
A coalition of Tennessee patient and health care provider groups backed by major U.S. drug companies is behind a bill that would stop insurance companies from switching the medications they cover to cheaper substitutes midway through a coverage year.The wackadoc is in the emergency care staffing business.
He does not give a hoot about anybody's soul.
He wants to make the poor go to emergency rooms so that he can make a profit.
The Reliable Coverage Act would require insurance companies to keep providing the same medication coverage they promise when enrollees sign up each year. Currently insurers can change the medications they cover midway through an enrollment year by ending coverage of a particular drug entirely, which increases out-of-pocket costs for a drug or requires additional approval by the insurance company before a drug is covered.
The bill, introduced last week by Sen. Mark Green, R-Clarksville, and Rep. Bryan Terry, R-Murfreesboro, would provide a direct financial benefit to the nation's drug companies, which have been criticized for sharply raising prices for medications that have long been on the market. But Green and Terry, both physicians, said in a news release the legislation is needed to make sure insurance companies follow through on a promise.
Tennessee bill would nix drug swaps by insurers, benefit drug industry
So, do you have a problem with this or it is simply to deflect further from your failed thread premise?
I don't have a failed premise. He needs to go. Yes, it's a problem.
He needs to go where? Why is that any of your responsibility or concern? Do you live in his district in Tennessee? If so, run against him!
If not, take your anti-religious attitude and shove it!
It's not an anti-religious attitude. Vote his ass out.
Where is that information that he already has two that are government supported as I saw that no where in what you posted in your OP?No, you are actually the one "making shit up" trying to make something out of nothing as it is not there in the articles you are stating and you apparently do not like that being pointed out to you.
He already has two. You are being intentionally obtuse.
It's not in the OP. Why are you cheerleading for a man you know nothing about?
A coalition of Tennessee patient and health care provider groups backed by major U.S. drug companies is behind a bill that would stop insurance companies from switching the medications they cover to cheaper substitutes midway through a coverage year.
The Reliable Coverage Act would require insurance companies to keep providing the same medication coverage they promise when enrollees sign up each year. Currently insurers can change the medications they cover midway through an enrollment year by ending coverage of a particular drug entirely, which increases out-of-pocket costs for a drug or requires additional approval by the insurance company before a drug is covered.
The bill, introduced last week by Sen. Mark Green, R-Clarksville, and Rep. Bryan Terry, R-Murfreesboro, would provide a direct financial benefit to the nation's drug companies, which have been criticized for sharply raising prices for medications that have long been on the market. But Green and Terry, both physicians, said in a news release the legislation is needed to make sure insurance companies follow through on a promise.
Tennessee bill would nix drug swaps by insurers, benefit drug industry
So, do you have a problem with this or it is simply to deflect further from your failed thread premise?
I don't have a failed premise. He needs to go. Yes, it's a problem.
He needs to go where? Why is that any of your responsibility or concern? Do you live in his district in Tennessee? If so, run against him!
If not, take your anti-religious attitude and shove it!
It's not an anti-religious attitude. Vote his ass out.
Yes, it is. You have stated your position without any doubt.
Now, put your money where your mouth is and run against him! Until then, shut your pie hole about his religious beliefs until it impacts you.
Why are you defending a man who you know nothing about. You know he operates in five states via his business, right? Didn't think so. Fuck off.Where is that information that he already has two that are government supported as I saw that no where in what you posted in your OP?No, you are actually the one "making shit up" trying to make something out of nothing as it is not there in the articles you are stating and you apparently do not like that being pointed out to you.
He already has two. You are being intentionally obtuse.
It's not in the OP. Why are you cheerleading for a man you know nothing about?
Why are you attacking him for something that has nothing to do with you?
So, do you have a problem with this or it is simply to deflect further from your failed thread premise?
I don't have a failed premise. He needs to go. Yes, it's a problem.
He needs to go where? Why is that any of your responsibility or concern? Do you live in his district in Tennessee? If so, run against him!
If not, take your anti-religious attitude and shove it!
It's not an anti-religious attitude. Vote his ass out.
Yes, it is. You have stated your position without any doubt.
Now, put your money where your mouth is and run against him! Until then, shut your pie hole about his religious beliefs until it impacts you.
Fuck off. My position is that putting clinics in a church for conversion is wrong as hell.
I don't have a failed premise. He needs to go. Yes, it's a problem.
He needs to go where? Why is that any of your responsibility or concern? Do you live in his district in Tennessee? If so, run against him!
If not, take your anti-religious attitude and shove it!
It's not an anti-religious attitude. Vote his ass out.
Yes, it is. You have stated your position without any doubt.
Now, put your money where your mouth is and run against him! Until then, shut your pie hole about his religious beliefs until it impacts you.
Fuck off. My position is that putting clinics in a church for conversion is wrong as hell.
You are entitled to your opinion, if you are a member of his district. Until then, you are just serving up religious bigotry of an exceptional vintage.
Anyone is entitled to an opinion about the man using religion to make more money in his position. Vote him out.I don't have a failed premise. He needs to go. Yes, it's a problem.
He needs to go where? Why is that any of your responsibility or concern? Do you live in his district in Tennessee? If so, run against him!
If not, take your anti-religious attitude and shove it!
It's not an anti-religious attitude. Vote his ass out.
Yes, it is. You have stated your position without any doubt.
Now, put your money where your mouth is and run against him! Until then, shut your pie hole about his religious beliefs until it impacts you.
Fuck off. My position is that putting clinics in a church for conversion is wrong as hell.
You are entitled to your opinion, if you are a member of his district. Until then, you are just serving up religious bigotry of an exceptional vintage.
All that debt owed and you still support the tax cut for the wealthiest in the health care bill, no? WHY?Actually, government health care is going to tear children out of their future. Just who do you think is going to pay or it all, when the government has 20 trillion in debt and a other 100+ trillion in liabilities?
Of course, the young won't stand for this blind robbery. They have a very good idea on who is destined to pay for all these leftist promises. Not surprisingly, the new generation, which should be called the "betrayed generation" is somewhere to the Right of Hitler.
Only a leftist is crazy enough to enslave his children in pursuit of the Marxist utopia.
I pay taxes.
You pay so much that a debt of 20 trillion and unfunded liabilities of 120 trillion is what is still unpaid for. The monolithic debt just calls for more government programs to be paid by the innocent young, doesn't it? It was easy to pretend these leftist policies are the be all end all, when all the costs were rolled to the unborn, wasn't it? No one bothered asking what happens when the payment is due.
And of course, almost half the people don't even pay income taxes. Just roll it all to children, and then wonder why they became so RW, when your policies destroyed their future.
I don't actually see anything wrong with churches offering a much needed service to the poor. In low income neighborhoods in cities all over this country, church groups are offering assistance to the homeless, to runaway teens, to addicts.Government health care draws sick people away from God’
That’s the view of Dr Mark Green, above, a God-besotted state senator in Tennessee who could soon become Trump’s new US Army Secretary.
In 2015, Green told a church group:
I see our sort of government-based assistance taking God out of the picture. If you look at the Gospels and you go and study the Gospels, every person who came to Christ came to Christ with a physical need. It was either hunger or a disease.
He lamented the fact that that citizens in the United States now rely instead on the government to assist them, thus limiting the role of Christian churches to help the afflicted.
The person who’s in need … they look to the government for the answer, not God, and I think in that way government has done an injustice that’s even bigger than just the creation of an entitlement welfare state … I think it interrupts the opportunity for people to come to a saving knowledge of who God is.
He said that he hoped to personally set up free healthcare clinics at churches throughout Tennessee. Green is President/CEO of Align MD, an emergency department staffing company with businesses in five Southeastern states and he:
The Freethinker - The voice of atheism since 1881 » ‘Government health care draws sick people away from God’
Get rid of this whackadoo.
You need to keep abreast of things. He declined Trump's consideration. Now, you can leave him alone and go back to your regularly scheduled tearing down of this nation.
Dr. Mark Green, Tennessee State Senator for District 22, serves as the Vice-Chair of the Senate Commerce and Insurance Committee as well as a member of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committees. He is the Chaplain of the Senate GOP Caucus and was selected as the Tennessee Journal’s Rookie of the year in 2013 and has won legislator of the year for numerous organizations. He recently won recognition as the NFIB’s Guardian of Small Business. Mark was also recognized as one of GOPAC’s top 21 Emerging Leaders for the Country.
I know. Get rid of this mother fucker.
Couldn't read and process my post can you? Typical LWNJ.
Have you ever read the Constitution about there not being a religious test to hold any office?
Didn't think so!
Actually Twat- I understand the Constitution just fine. What I dislike is anyone who is proposing putting "free" medical clinics in churches so they can get God.
Yes, I agree with you. The hypocritical greediness of the legislator just grinds the decency of people.I don't actually see anything wrong with churches offering a much needed service to the poor. In low income neighborhoods in cities all over this country, church groups are offering assistance to the homeless, to runaway teens, to addicts.Government health care draws sick people away from God’
That’s the view of Dr Mark Green, above, a God-besotted state senator in Tennessee who could soon become Trump’s new US Army Secretary.
In 2015, Green told a church group:
I see our sort of government-based assistance taking God out of the picture. If you look at the Gospels and you go and study the Gospels, every person who came to Christ came to Christ with a physical need. It was either hunger or a disease.
He lamented the fact that that citizens in the United States now rely instead on the government to assist them, thus limiting the role of Christian churches to help the afflicted.
The person who’s in need … they look to the government for the answer, not God, and I think in that way government has done an injustice that’s even bigger than just the creation of an entitlement welfare state … I think it interrupts the opportunity for people to come to a saving knowledge of who God is.
He said that he hoped to personally set up free healthcare clinics at churches throughout Tennessee. Green is President/CEO of Align MD, an emergency department staffing company with businesses in five Southeastern states and he:
The Freethinker - The voice of atheism since 1881 » ‘Government health care draws sick people away from God’
Get rid of this whackadoo.
You need to keep abreast of things. He declined Trump's consideration. Now, you can leave him alone and go back to your regularly scheduled tearing down of this nation.
Dr. Mark Green, Tennessee State Senator for District 22, serves as the Vice-Chair of the Senate Commerce and Insurance Committee as well as a member of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committees. He is the Chaplain of the Senate GOP Caucus and was selected as the Tennessee Journal’s Rookie of the year in 2013 and has won legislator of the year for numerous organizations. He recently won recognition as the NFIB’s Guardian of Small Business. Mark was also recognized as one of GOPAC’s top 21 Emerging Leaders for the Country.
I know. Get rid of this mother fucker.
Couldn't read and process my post can you? Typical LWNJ.
Have you ever read the Constitution about there not being a religious test to hold any office?
Didn't think so!
Actually Twat- I understand the Constitution just fine. What I dislike is anyone who is proposing putting "free" medical clinics in churches so they can get God.
I don't see anything wrong with the government offering these things, either, but the church groups have a lot less paperwork to fill out.
The more the merrier, imo.
I don't actually see anything wrong with churches offering a much needed service to the poor. In low income neighborhoods in cities all over this country, church groups are offering assistance to the homeless, to runaway teens, to addicts.Government health care draws sick people away from God’
That’s the view of Dr Mark Green, above, a God-besotted state senator in Tennessee who could soon become Trump’s new US Army Secretary.
In 2015, Green told a church group:
I see our sort of government-based assistance taking God out of the picture. If you look at the Gospels and you go and study the Gospels, every person who came to Christ came to Christ with a physical need. It was either hunger or a disease.
He lamented the fact that that citizens in the United States now rely instead on the government to assist them, thus limiting the role of Christian churches to help the afflicted.
The person who’s in need … they look to the government for the answer, not God, and I think in that way government has done an injustice that’s even bigger than just the creation of an entitlement welfare state … I think it interrupts the opportunity for people to come to a saving knowledge of who God is.
He said that he hoped to personally set up free healthcare clinics at churches throughout Tennessee. Green is President/CEO of Align MD, an emergency department staffing company with businesses in five Southeastern states and he:
The Freethinker - The voice of atheism since 1881 » ‘Government health care draws sick people away from God’
Get rid of this whackadoo.
You need to keep abreast of things. He declined Trump's consideration. Now, you can leave him alone and go back to your regularly scheduled tearing down of this nation.
Dr. Mark Green, Tennessee State Senator for District 22, serves as the Vice-Chair of the Senate Commerce and Insurance Committee as well as a member of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committees. He is the Chaplain of the Senate GOP Caucus and was selected as the Tennessee Journal’s Rookie of the year in 2013 and has won legislator of the year for numerous organizations. He recently won recognition as the NFIB’s Guardian of Small Business. Mark was also recognized as one of GOPAC’s top 21 Emerging Leaders for the Country.
I know. Get rid of this mother fucker.
Couldn't read and process my post can you? Typical LWNJ.
Have you ever read the Constitution about there not being a religious test to hold any office?
Didn't think so!
Actually Twat- I understand the Constitution just fine. What I dislike is anyone who is proposing putting "free" medical clinics in churches so they can get God.
I don't see anything wrong with the government offering these things, either, but the church groups have a lot less paperwork to fill out.
The more the merrier, imo.
Christianity is based on the premise of spreading the word to the world. Some churches are very active in that. I'm not sure why this seems a new concept to you.So, do you have a problem with this or it is simply to deflect further from your failed thread premise?
I don't have a failed premise. He needs to go. Yes, it's a problem.
He needs to go where? Why is that any of your responsibility or concern? Do you live in his district in Tennessee? If so, run against him!
If not, take your anti-religious attitude and shove it!
It's not an anti-religious attitude. Vote his ass out.
Yes, it is. You have stated your position without any doubt.
Now, put your money where your mouth is and run against him! Until then, shut your pie hole about his religious beliefs until it impacts you.
Fuck off. My position is that putting clinics in a church for conversion is wrong as hell.
