Which in your opinion is the biggest contributing factor in the high cost of health care?

Question

A. Trial lawyers and frivilious law suits
B. Greed
C. High Physican fees
D. Malpractice Insurance
E. Insurance company profits
G. Infalted hospital charges
H. other ( explain)

Now how would you rectify this

Answer 1

E. Insurance Company profits
C: High Physic an Fees

How to fix it? easy eliminate the federal income tax. Put in a federal sales tax of five cents on the dollar. The US would then have more money in its coffers then we have ever had before. We would also eliminate the second largest drain on the budget the IRS

We could then begin a program where we pay of qualified students to go to medical school. Once out these students would be obligated to work for government run hospitals at Government level salaries. Soon because the cost of this would be free to all people the private practice doctors and insurance companies would be forced by competition to lower their fees to something reasonable

Answer 2

I think it is A., D., and H. H being uninsured people whether illegal aliens or not. I now work in a hospital. Many people without insurance come in daily right after the Doctor's offices close and especially on the weekends. Their complaint run from very serious, accident type injuries to a rash that they have had for a week.

This is why typical waiting room time is about 2-3 hours on a regular day. Many times 4-5 hours on a busy night.

Law suit costs also lead to higher malpractice insurance and it becomes a vicious cycle. Tort reform may help some of this problem but the lobby against that is strong and filled with lawyers. Tort reform would likely lower malpractice costs but will take awhile since insurance companies dont want to give up any profit.

I wish I had a reasonable idea how to have all insured. Everyone gets emergency services without having insurance.Figuring out how to take care of prescription costs and minor office visits will be the hard part. When someone has a minor procedure done at a Hospital ER the cost is much higher than a Doctor's office.

Answer 3

They are things that can only be discovered after hundreds and hundreds of trials. And of course, strict restriction needs to be in place. However, because the basis of science is always changing due to new discoveries, we need to also have sympathy to the drug company as well. They are not miracle makers, they only try to make profits by selling something that they "think" might help other people. Imagine the world without antibiotics and other medication, how many people would have to die? If we agree that science can be changed, the drug company might not have an excuse of increasing medication prices because of law suit.Also if we look at any other area that has used the socialist system it has bogged down and failed to live up to its Utopian promise. No system is perfect but open and free market is the best out there.

Answer 4

My guess is greed. The greed of lawyers, the greed of some people who file ridiculous malpractice suits, the greed of some doctors, the greed of hospitals and a lot of greed on the part of insurance companies. Do I think universal health care would help, no. I think it would just become worse because everyone loves to screw the government and wouldn't a lot of us try. I don't have a good answer to change things not a clue.We could start by being responsible health consumers, this means checking your bills, not running to the doctor every time you get a cold, when a treatment is called for get a second opinion, take better care of yourself by watching what you eat, exercising more, if you smoke , quit. We all knot these things but not enough of us do these things. Also, to remove some of the greed from lawsuits I would make malpractice and all medical suits could only be filed on the amount of actual damages unless the malpractice resulted in the inability of someone to earn a living. These damages could even include the cost of someone learning a new trade. Love to hear your ideas on the subject.

Answer 5

C. The AMA has done a good job of limiting enrollments in medical schools to maintain the medical monopoly.

Throwing more money at the medical system just makes doctors richer without increasing the amount of medical care.

Solution: Train more doctors. Allow more doctors to immigrate (although a doctor not fluent in English is not worth much to me).

H1. The pharmaceutical monopoly. They overcharge for drugs that are much cheaper in the rest of the world, They collude with the FDA to keep out competition from better drugs used in Europe. They encourage doctors to over-prescribe unnecessary drugs.

Solution: Allow drug imports from other countries. Make the FDA just an advisory agency, not a regulator.

H2. Most medical expenses are in the last year of life when people are hooked up to a bunch of tubes and would rather just get it over with.

Solution: I'd like to have the option of paying lower premiums now and then just taking a suicide pill as soon as I get a terminal illness.

H3. Improvements in medical technology. Medical science can save many lives in situations where there was previously no hope. But the new technology is expensive.

Solution: This is a good thing. I'm willing to pay more to get more quality years.

(I like Schaufel's well-informed sensible answer.)

Answer 6

A who are influenced by B, which causes C, D, E, & G.

Outsource the entire Health Care system.

OBTW what happened to F which usually comes after E.

Answer 7

Greed!

Make the drug companies pay penalties each time someone died on their product, not a serious fine, but at least what that particular person paid them, it would start adding up. These frivolous lawsuits don't help anyone, but getting your money back seems fair to me, if the product didn't work, why not?

The doctors here are paid waaay too much, in a socialist society, they don't make squat, which is why a lot of foreigners come here, we still pay our doctors too much. Being a doctor is SUPPOSED to be a calling, make medical school tough, but not so damned expensive, there are ways.

Limits on stupid million dollar lawsuits, make the numbers realistic, like take that person who died salary, multiply it by their life expetancy and add 15%, that should be the number. Make it realistic.

If someone dies in the hospital, RIP UP THE BILL!!!

Answer 8

The Answer is H (other). (however A (and conversly D) is a big component too...)


As recently as the 1960s, low-cost health insurance was available to virtually everyone in America - including people with existing medical problems. Doctors made house calls. A hospital stay cost only a few days' pay. Charity hospitals were available to take care of families who could not afford to pay for healthcare.

Since then the federal government has increasingly intervened through Medicare, Medicaid, the HMO Act and tens of thousands of regulations on doctors, hospitals and health-insurance companies.

Today, more than 50 percent of all healthcare dollars are spent by the government.

Health insurance costs are skyrocketing. Government health programs are heading for bankruptcy. Politicians continue to pile on the regulations.

And today in America you hear politicans on both sides of the political spectrum talking about a Canadian style "universal healthcare" system. This is the single worst thing that could be done! Here is an excerpt from the Journal News, which illustrates what happens when you institute a socialist healthcare system:


While recently presenting a continuing education course to doctors in Ireland, and in a recent visit to a colleague in Canada, I learned first-hand how astronomical income taxes, long waits, and limited access characterize their universal health-care systems.

Ireland boasts the richest economy in Western Europe, but in a country of about 4 million people, there are 17 neurologists, it takes up to a year to get an appointment to see one for the initial visit, and patients could wait up to six months for a follow-up visit. It takes about four months to get an MRI scan, about 14 weeks for diagnostic ultrasound, and surgical cases are put on waiting lists.

Canadians pay roughly a 50 percent income tax to help support their national health-care system, but in Ontario, most Canadians who can afford it purchase private extended health coverage rather than relying upon the government-sponsored programs to avoid similar problems.

Government-sponsored health-care programs in our country also have serious problems. [1]


The only healthcare reforms that will make a real difference are those that are draw on the strength of the free market.

Here are some simple solutions to the "healthcare crisis" facing us today:

1. Establish Medical Saving Accounts.

Under this program, you could deposit tax-free money into a Medical Savings Account (MSA). Whenever you need the money to pay medical bills, you will be able to withdraw it. For individuals without an MSA, all healthcare expenditures should be made 100 percent tax deductible.

2. Deregulate the healthcare industry.

We should repeal all government policies that increase health costs and decrease the availability of medical services. For example, every state has laws that mandate coverage of specific disabilities and diseases. These laws reduce consumer choice and increase the cost of health insurance. By making insurance more expensive, mandated benefits increase the number of uninsured American workers.

3. Remove barriers to safe, affordable medicines.

We should replace harmful government agencies like the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) with more agile, free-market alternatives. The mission of the FDA is to protect us from unsafe medicines. In fact, the FDA has driven up healthcare costs and deprived millions of Americans of much-needed treatments. For example, during a 10-year delay in approving Propanolol Propranolol (a heart medication for treating angina and hypertension), approximately 100,000 people died who could have been treated with this lifesaving drug. Bureaucratic roadblocks kill sick Americans.

Answer 9

e. then a and d Make Lawyers accountable for Lost cases.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

I. Noble Lies ( OK for rich Americans to manipulate stupid Americans )