Most of the admin costs result from a bloated bureaucracy within the industry, and an obscene amount of unnessary regulation. There are estimates that HIPAA Compliance alone adds 10-15% to healthcare costs.
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mo wrote: >> Until you fix those, any universal health care program will fail. > > Wow, couldn't have said it better! Exactly. I would add one thing, > though, (maybe it was implicit) that healthcare admin costs are > approaching 30%! That's about 6x higher than other industries. It's > outrageous. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:262978 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
