Speaking as s complete outsider, one of the flaws that I see in your system is just how much everything costs. Doctors and hospitals have to pay insane amounts of money for malpractice insurance, the cost of filing paperwork to multiple insurance companies, advertising (because mediciine is free market there), chasing down patients for payment and of course, getting stiffed by patients. Not to mention chasing down insurance companies for payment, I have a friend who is still harrassing companies for payment eight months later, and she has bills to pay in the meantime.
All those things substantially increase the costs. You could afford to spend so much more on actually treating patients if you took all those factors out of the equation.
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Date: 2007-03-15 02:26 am (UTC)All those things substantially increase the costs. You could afford to spend so much more on actually treating patients if you took all those factors out of the equation.