On CNN... PriceWaterhouseCoopers study says medical waste comes from:
Lack of Personal Responsibility - Obesity $ 200 Billion, Smoking $ 190 Billion
Mistakes - wrong medication, overmedication, using the ER for a cold, etc. - 92 Billion
CYA Defensive Medicine - preventing medical malpractice suits $ 210 Billion
Operation Costs - $ 210 Billion to file for insurance and push paper.
Miscellaneous waste: $ 300 Billion.
Total waste? $ 1.2 Trillion per year.
whimsy
Yes, and this has been discussed, at length.
Too bad folks would rather disrupt meetings than actually address issues and understand the proposals
jusme
YEP!
Funding the Government Insurance/Nationalized Health plan, is as simple as this..Liberals and Democrats?
n terms of savings for you as a Medicare recipient," President Obama told a town hall attendee yesterday, "the biggest (change) is on prescription drugs, because the prescription drug companies have already said that they would be willing to put up $ 80 billion in rebates for prescription drugs as part of a health care reform package."
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money," the late Senator Everett Dirksen is supposed to have said.*
And so it is today with health care fraud, a burgeoning crime plague that's adding up in a big way, big-ticket scheme after big-ticket scheme, essentially costing you money every time you walk into a hospital or doctor's office or fill a prescription, whether you know it or not. The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association estimates that this fraud collectively costs Americans between $ 60 billion and $ 100 billion a year. Ouch.
What would be the savings encountered when streamlining paperwork?
What would be the cost savings when "reforming" tort law?
What would be the savings when reforming Malpractice claims?
Give me a break, proposing to get "into my life" alienate me from my most basic liberties, control the very independence of what it is to be an AMERICAN.
Washington NEEDS to fix the problems on their doorstep and stay away from mine!
With those numbers above do you honestly believe I will forfeit my patriotism for your ineptness ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionar… to correct the problems you have right now, but are unwilling to pursue?
Ohmindlessone
I flushed some waste down the terlet this a.m.
froghugger
no, $ 1.2 Trillion is just a drop in the bucket to Obama.
prusa1237
No , I don't care to manage other people's lifestyles and I don't think the government has any business doing it either.
Rachel B
I truly believe that if I'm going to pitch in for every american's insurance I want to make sure they are taking care of themselves or pay for their own insurance. Smokers, over-weight people are the groups that I believe should pay for their own health insurance and not be part of ours. Of course, if someone is over weight because of thyroid problems or any other medical condition, that's different, but by choice, no...put the cheese burger down and get on that tread-mill.
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