What does this prove? You do realize Obama care adds hundreds of 1099 forms for everything medicine related? Talk about going out of business.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is an anectdote so you know what its worth. > > My cousin is a doctor in Sheffield in Yorkshire England. In talking > with him and my father in law, who is a doctor in the same specialty > in Tennessee, admin efforts really stand out as a difference. Derrick > spends about 1 to 5 hours a week on admin tasks in his independent > practice. My father in law moved from an independent practice to a > group practice because of the admin tasks, and he spends at least 20 > to 30 hours per week on admin tasks. Mainly on insurance etc. > > Now multiply that by the thousands of doctors and other health care > providers across the country. That would be a huge savings alone. > > The largest hospital in Ontario has a staff of 5 to handle insurance > related tasks, and according to the director they're somewhat under > employed. A typical moderately sized group practice in the US has at > least 5 and more often more than 10 employees dedicated to insurance > tasks. > > Again a single payer system is much cheaper in terms of administration > than the current system. Even with the proposed reforms, its still > going to be quite a lot more in terms of admin costs than any single > payer system. > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Eric Roberts > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> >> I can also find many many more cases where the UK healthcare system works >> just fine...no bubble burst here. >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:317910 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
