Posted on 02/21/2023 4:39:58 AM PST by MtnClimber
The cost of "free" healthcare? Human collateral.
Based on a January 2023 jobs report, President Biden touted what he called the “strongest job growth in history.” The two sectors with greatest growth were hospitality and healthcare. Biden failed to mention though, that increasing the number of “healthcare” jobs harms, in fact kills, Americans.
The primary function of any healthcare system is medical care. Job growth that helps Americans get care would be care providers, i.e., doctors and nurses. Some other jobs facilitate providers’ delivery of care such as technicians and pharmacists. Then, there are the middlemen.
Which jobs grew in number: care providers or middlemen?
There are two categories of providers: nurses and doctors. There are thousands of healthcare middlemen jobs in both the business sector as well as government, federal and state. Healthcare middlemen jobs include actuaries, administrators, agents, analysts, bureaucrats, compliance officers, consultants, lawyers, managers, regulators, rule-writers, secretaries, and a host of assistant positions.
Resources like money, time, and people used to support middlemen are taken from those who provide care. Healthcare spending is a zero-sum game and the resulting bureaucratic diversion has a seesaw effect: more for middlemen leaves less for patients.
A 1999 study suggested that at least 31 percent of U.S. healthcare spending was taken from patient care to pay middlemen. With expanded regulation of healthcare since 1999, particularly the cost of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare) and the healthcare spending built-in to the Anti-Inflation Act of 2022, roughly 50 percent of our healthcare spending is wasted on non-clinical activities.
For example, the ACA took $756 billion away from Medicare — from patient care — to pay for insurance regulations, policies, and oversight.
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And more paperwork.
As long as my AI robot doctor is Italian, he probably wont proscribe euthanasia. But I could be mistaken.
A 1999 study suggested that at least 31 percent of U.S. healthcare spending was taken from patient care to pay middlemen. With expanded regulation of healthcare since 1999, particularly the cost of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare) and the healthcare spending built-in to the Anti-Inflation Act of 2022, roughly 50 percent of our healthcare spending is wasted on non-clinical activities.
bmp
Biden’s “greatest job growth in history” is a crock. The 500,000 jobs are the product of changing the way seasonal jobs are calculated.
The new formula added 3 million to the old calculation. Hence, an actual (by previous formula) job loss of 2.5 million.
But, we couldn’t have that in the days leading up to the state of the union diatribe.
EC
Those docs want test results, and x rays and case analysis prepared ahead, and appointments made, and stuff like cash flow. The kind Doc could always do house calls and do business one on one.
You really need to be your own doctor these days. And I will admit that is a somewhat difficult sentence to parse.
Fact is that each person is able to decide which recommendations to follow. And that is where it gets more difficult.
For the LOVE OF GOD!!!? Why do the drug companies get to promote their products on television? And in magazines?
You can tell me that is how capitalism works. Okay!!
Then where are the hard liquor and cigarette commercials?
How about guns and ammo? Can you imagine television commercials for 22 caliber rifles? (.223 or .22? I hear you think).
Rant not over, but paused.
Until the first law suit is filed
Then everyone is out of business
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