The country has made a decision that basic healthcare is essential for all of our citizens. To get there, we need to change how we function; to break the mold and look beyond our own wallets and folklore about the “American Way.”
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I was shocked at Rick Scott's nomination and that he ran on the basis of his “business” acumen.
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With all due respect to our dear leaders, what percentage of the premium dollar currently makes its way to healthcare providers?
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The Health Affairs study noted in Andis Robeznieks’ article “No real difference seen in quality of care from foreign-trained docs” presented evidence on findings about international vs. U.S.-based medical training. However, the article overlooked additional study findings that warrant attention. The study also found new evidence of the link between physician board certification and quality of care.
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One can imagine the following spoken from the vantage point of our dear leaders in Washington: Those greedy insurance companies. There is no reason why the government should not mandate that 85% of the premium dollar go to healthcare providers of one sort of another, with a maximum of 15% left over for general, sales and administrative costs and taxes.
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Unfortunately, medicine as carried out in our country is by and large fertile ground for dishonesty, outright theft, fraud and considerably worse.
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State licensing authorities might question whether recovery audit contractors' determining whether particular services are medically necessary is in fact “practicing medicine.”
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Yes, I believe the healthcare reform law will save Medicare by cutting high utilization of interventions that are not really needed for the purpose of diagnosis.
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Hospitals are paying attention to satisfying the quality component for future reimbursements, which could otherwise see additional cuts in reimbursement.
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Medicaid and Medicare are huge public-option plans that run side by side with nongovernment managed-care organizations. They have been doing so for many years.
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recently retired from a 38-year career in healthcare administration, moved to a community with ample high-quality physicians and hospital, and enrolled in Medicare only to discover that many of the best primary-care physicians are no longer taking Medicare patients.
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The dollars that are spent paying insurance premiums in the hope that bills for healthcare service are paid would be better spent actually paying directly for services.
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This scheme is clearly set up to drive private competition out of the market, the result being only the government option left standing.
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