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US healthcare averaged 20 billion dollars a year on just updating administrative changes to adapt for regulations. That was in 2018, it’s easily double that now with the Medicare/ Medicaid is forcing more strain on the system under Biden. The US still produces about half of all medical innovations in country and funds about 80% of all medical innovations worldwide. This doesn’t even include the strain of state laws that force hospitals to eat costs constantly or pass them on to patients. The mass conglomerating of hospitals is the intended socialism of healthcare, they are forcing private practices into non existence through bureaucratic red tape and regulations so independent doctors must sign up with a network just to not be bogged down with constant paperwork. This is just the tip of the bureaucratic nightmare that is “privatized healthcare”.
A huge part of why American healthcare is "expensive" is because you can get procedures that aren't available elsewhere, that were developed in the States.
Sure Cuban healthcare is cheap; all they can do is bandage your cuts and maybe set a bone.
IV drips don't cost $300 in a $10,000 a night hospital room because America has the best heart surgeons. If so then maybe the people receiving those state-of-the-art procedures need to be paying more of their share.
What share? Actual state-of-the-art procedures aren't covered by insurance, and the best doctors and surgeons will not accept insurance, period. They've separated themselves from the system.
No, costs are out of control because Jamal and Jose go to the ER for literally everything because hospitals can't refuse patients. Demanding payment from them is like drawing blood from a rock, which is why they pass on the costs to everyone else.
Meanwhile, the people that aren't ultra-rich or gibsmedats don't know how much a procedure costs until after it's happened, so we have "insurance" forced on us to "negotiate" on our behalf.
I'm working as tech support for a medical billing company right now, and I can confirm, there are absolutely insane amounts of charges that just get written off because there's nothing that they can do to get the deadbeats to pay up.
Yep the bureaucratic leviathan is absolutely a major component in health care expenditure.