U.S. Healthcare System Wastes Up to $700-$800 Billion a Year: Reuters

October 27, 2009

  • October 27, 2009 at 3:09 am
    Tom says:
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    Fraud is already illegal – we don’t need more laws or a public option, we need better enforcement of existing laws.

    Also, preventable diseases are just that -preventable. How is a new federal law or health program going to make people stop smoking, eat healthy and exercise? Maybe double the price of cigarettes, ban corn syrup, take junk food out of schools, etc. We can already do this without more legislation – but apparently we don’t, as a nation, have the will to do it.

    So, how is health care overhaul going to achieve these savings?

  • October 27, 2009 at 3:28 am
    Al says:
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    If the IJ had a brain it would be opposing the destruction of our healthcare system.

    Instead it’s pushing gorebal warming and Obamunism.

    Morons.

  • October 27, 2009 at 3:32 am
    Adam says:
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    Waste in the delivery of medical care is not news. The issue is how much waste we are we willing to tolerate and what trade offs are we willing to accept to offset such waste.

    The timing of the report by Thomson Reuters, the parent company of Reuters, so close to securing key votes for a federal health care “reform” bill is not a coincidence, obviously. This is political journalism at its worst. I especially relish the first line of the article: “The U.S. healthcare system is just as wasteful as President Barack Obama says it is…”. Could you imagine such a glowing introduction to a remark by the prior administration? What’s worse is that the author provides no analysis to explain how we got here or how the proposed reform bill in Congress will help reduce waste. All we get is this statement: “Democratic Senator Charles Schumer said Sunday that Senate Democratic leaders are close to securing enough votes to pass legislation to start reform of the country’s $2.5 trillion healthcare system.”

    Well, consider me dissatisfied with this smug repose. We know that much of the waste underscored in the article is a result of third party payment, the imposition of expensive federal and state regulations that require lawyers and a host of departments to decipher, a thriving plaintiffs bar, a powerful boomer constituency that believes more care is always better…shall I go on?
    Aside from rationing care, will the so-called reform legislation change any of this?

  • October 27, 2009 at 3:32 am
    Chilly says:
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    Funny thing, posts from certian people disagreeing with IJ’s gorebal warming position don’t get posted.

    Veeeerry intereting…

  • October 27, 2009 at 4:09 am
    Azekiel says:
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    People are employed by various agencies to create processes that PREVENT this kind of abuse. We need to find out who they are and fire them for incompetence. Since when has it been acceptable to waste resources? $800,000,000,000 is a shocking and embarassing number and people should be pissed off and fed up with this kind of incompetence. No wonder we have economic problems in this country.



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