NC SPIN: How Healthy is Healthcare in North Carolina, Staff Reductions and Continued Squabbling in Public Education, Who Pays for the Coal Ash Cleanup?

July 14, 2018 at 10:40 pm
Tom Hauck says:

Lots of discussion about healthcare but nothing about the $750 billion wasted money each year.

We constantly read of the high cost of healthcare insurance and that healthcare costs are about 18% of the national economy but all the current discussions are about how to split up or rearrange who is to pay the current costs rather than reduce the costs -- like rearranging the deck chairs on the (sinking) Titanic.

Kindly review the following items which show how to save about $750 billion (with a b) each year and enjoy better health outcomes -- saving up to 50,000 lives per year.

I have given you all the details in case you do not or cannot open links. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/health/policy/parting-shot-at-waste-by-key-obama-health-official.html

Here are three links to or about the study -- the first is an article in The Atlantic magazine and it easily highlights how the money is wasted.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/09/how-the-us-health-care-system-wastes-750-billion-annually/262106/

The best and easiest/quickest way to understand the report is to read the Summary and here is the link to the Summary.

https://www.nap.edu/read/13444/chapter/3

This is the link to the entire 400 page report which you can read online for free.

https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13444/best-care-at-lower-cost-the-path-to-continuously-learning

Here is a link to an article (one of many) about how the Mayo Clinic is working to reduce costs by 30%.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-blog/mayo-clinic-wants-to-cut-outpatient-costs-by-30-here-s-how-they-ll-do-it.html