but the healthcare system needs a lot of fixes and the Federal government is incapable of doing anything that doesn’t lead to higher costs and more fraud and abuse.
- we need more doctors and they need to be willing to work for less money. Tort reform and free education for any doctors who agree to work for a specified length of time at a set salary?
- walk in clinics for minor issues seem to be getting more prevalent and as long as the costs there are controlled it seems like a good thing.
- cost transparency and assurance that the health care system will not overcharge some to pay for those who game the system and never pay
As someone who had two recent outpatient surgeries I can attest that there are too many people involved who don’t contribute a lot to patient welfare. Their computer systems suck- three different people entering the same info ( four if you count pre-registration) sucks up money. The amounts charged bear zero relationship to the (lower) amounts negotiated for payment by my insurance company. Diagnostic tests ordered before I even got to the point of having the surgeries were absurd and expensive when my primary care physician diagnosed my problem in December from a simple ultra sound but to cover their asses from any possibility of litigation they required four subsequent expensive diagnostic tests taking 5 months to complete from the time I became ill to the time I was cured.