>>1272934In the US administrative costs are eating healthcare alive. A one-doctor practice might have 12 employees - office manager (to figure out all the government mandated crap of keeping an office running), billing manager (to figure out all of the right billing codes and handle 20 different insurance companies who want the doc to jump through hoops to get paid), two nurses minimum (just to do the basic patient intake stuff and the occasional minor medical test/sample collection), a receptionist or two (because one is going to need days off and with two you can have one person on phones and one checking people in/out) an IT person (believe it or not, someone to keep the tech running is actually now a full time job even at a small business) and probably a mail stuffer to process all of the incoming and outgoing. Hospitals are easily ten times worse.
I run a small business. Health insurance for my family cost me $870 a month last year, after the government "subsidy" of $500. Nearly $1400 a month just for health insurance. If I weren't middle class, I'd have free Medicaid, I guess...but this shit costs me a full third of my income. No, I don't want government healthcare, I want a real free market to bring the fucking prices down. Fire some damn people in the chain, there's no reason to have so many middlemen getting a cut.
