Report: US Health Care System Wastes 30 Cents of Every Dollar

[A&M_Indie_08]

It would be EXTREMELY nice if we could get the big pharmaceutical lobby out of politics..... that could only help

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Originally Posted by A&M_Indie_08

It would be EXTREMELY nice if we could get the big pharmaceutical lobby out of politics..... that could only help

Yup.

You know, back when we were being told we had to read the ACA to learn what was in it, there was a real quick way to tell it was a giant steaming pile of **** without needing to do so: merely observing the killing of the Dorgan amendment to allow the reimportation of drugs, which said everything about how it was written and for who. You want to talk about bending the cost curve? That would have, at least in the pharmaceutical realm, broken the cost curve over its knee. Of course, it didn't happen, got to keep that sweet industry money flowing to the campaign coffers somehow.........

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

we need to remove government from health care and get back to a patient/doctor arraignment.
Of course liberal fools will continue to believe it can be reformed into a model of efficiency by their god, government.

Government? You think government is the cause this? Private insurance requires loads of paperwork, stupid prior auths, all kinds of overhead.

Originally Posted by Minethatbird

"Examples of wasteful care include most repeat colonoscopies within 10 years of a first such test ....."

I'm having one shortly. The MD who did my first 4 years go wants me to have one done every 4-5 years.

When the "18-member panel of prominent experts, including doctors, business people, and public officials" spend 30 years or so in the field of gastroentorolgy perhaps I'll take their advice.

I can think of another icon I'd like to post, but sadly it's not here.

The protocols for colonoscopies is every 10 years UNLESS there is a history of colon cancer in the family, polyps are found at a scope, etc. It's not as black and white as this article made it seem.