US health care the worst while spending the most

[mpaer]

Possibly has to do with the providers that are available and willing to strike a deal with BCBS in the area. The triangle has two med schools and places that doctors want to live during their child rearing years. There is more healthcare supply.

Pamlico has places that people want to retire to but not as many doctors want to raise their kids there. Medicine is one of the few professions where you can make more money in rural areas and its because the supply is limited.

I swear I think you can make more in Charelston WVa than Cary at Chain Hospitals

 

[C-Money]

Maybe making something like health care and health insurance for profit is a bad idea.

 

[uncgriff]

Sat through a presentation today about how we need to have the PCPs in our network use ultrasound to do knee and shoulder injections. By doing so we can charge an additional $150 a procedure. The machines cost $40k.

I have over the course of my 30 year career likely given over a thousand of these injections with no complications and have never once wished I had an ultrasound machine in the room to do so.

The other docs on the call thought I was nuts to mention that.

Thats the US healthcare system on a zoom call ladies and gentlemen.

 

[aGDevil2k]

It's gotten so so bad

My new plan, the deductible went from $500 to $3000. But now we are on the Garner plan so if we go to specific doctors any costs get paid back to us to to $3000. It feels dirty

 

[pspsps]

It's gotten so so bad

My new plan, the deductible went from $500 to $3000. But now we are on the Garner plan so if we go to specific doctors any costs get paid back to us to to $3000. It feels dirty

It is dirty. It is an intentionally inhumane architecture. The humanity only exists in the individual relationships within the system and those are often disincentivized.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

I get the feeling that our entire healthcare system, like so much else in our society (real estate, automobile industry, academia) are steadily moving towards a massive collapse, or implosion. Mainly because it's simply not a sustainable system in the long run. My fear is that the Democrats will be in power when this happens and so our gullible voting public will blame them instead of Republicans and the corporations who brought on the collapse.

 

[Zoo_View]

I get the feeling that our entire healthcare system, like so much else in our society (real estate, automobile industry, academia) are steadily moving towards a massive collapse, or implosion. Mainly because it's simply not a sustainable system in the long run. My fear is that the Democrats will be in power when this happens and so our gullible voting public will blame them instead of Republicans and the corporations who brought on the collapse.

That’s what happened in ‘79 and ‘81……and Americans blamed Reagan for the ‘82 Recession; but, white, “moderate” “Independent,” suburbanites and soccer Moms AND Dads soon exonerated Ronnie and supported HUGE deficits and “morning in America.”

 

[mpaer]

The shame of it is there are plenty of entrepeneuers out there that improve diagnostics, delivery models etc. They just always evolve into a greedy grab for overpricing or they get sucked into some existing monopolisic entity.
The only logical response is something like single payer for most services-and as we know the price regulators in such a system can-and presently are-"bought off"