US health care the worst while spending the most

[mpaer]

-- but at the end of the day, people still need to be seen by a physician. And a physician can only see X patients per hour. I've not seen X lower than four. For my wife, it used to be 2 and is now 3.

On an Optimistic note I am a geriatric patient-so me and Medicare go to a lot of doctors/specialists. I help out with grandkids and regulary go to a good size Pediatrics outpatient clinic
I am very impressed , amazed , at the efficiency of the operations I go to. But is very expensive to maximize Physican encounters with high numbers of patients. Financial (insurance ) experts. Techs, Nurse, PAS to do tons of screening , discussions with patients-follow up exams.
And at the UNC Health Care outfits I go to there is also the HQs shop with bunches of eager beaver MBAs doing whatever they do to make the world a better place (lol )
But that is all expensive to hire all those folks and build facilities big enough to give them space to work . But man the places I go to give really good care with Tidy wait times

 

[farce©]

How much doctors make is less relevant than how much health insurers make for their shareholders, and how much they spend other than direct payment of medical costs. Take out the costs insurance companies add to our health care expenditures, and use the collective dollars we (and our employers) all pay in health care premiums to pay for it.

 

[superrific]

How much doctors make is less relevant than how much health insurers make for their shareholders, and how much they spend other than direct payment of medical costs. Take out the costs insurance companies add to our health care expenditures, and use the collective dollars we (and our employers) all pay in health care premiums to pay for it.

This is not true. Physician salaries are a bigger cost driver than insurance company profits or overhead. The latter is important and certainly adds to cost, but physician salaries are a big difference in our system versus Europe.

 

[grimes70]