Quote Originally Posted by Dave Byrd
You won't get any argument from me that the hospital system needs fixing in the process. You're precisely right that the whole system has a grossly inflated racket going w/ equipment and billing. The same thing is true of billing to insurance companies. Pharmaceutical. This is how the current prices got so inflated.

What you're not realizing, though, is that this is precisely the big-business-ized system the Obama team and the new nationalized plan is going to have to address to cut the very costs you're talking about. The reason they're the only ones who can do that, as opposed to the Rs, is that the current system has grown up at the nurturing of the Rs.
"going to have to address" and calling for an internal investigation are two different things. The system is corrupt and untill a candidate states just that I can't see where nothing will be done to solve the root of the problem. I'm sure that his ties with the University of Chicago Health System will stand in the way of real "change".

Quote Originally Posted by Dave Byrd
I wish I could stay and explain this a bit longer, but I am on call and have to go stand over a couple of those very beds at, fortunately, a not-for-profit hospital. Will try to get back to this later in the week.
Not for profit....so at the end of the fiscal year when there is a couple million left in the kitty how do they handle it? I've found this system a myth as stated in my previous post.

Have a good one!:s4: