So... talk to me about how good healthcare is in the rest of the world you tarts. I witness it with my wife's family in the UK. Little things are easy. You want a hip/knee replacement when you need it and you're paying out of pocket. Keep acting like government healthcare is so great.
And since you love facts. I assume you're getting info from this garbage.
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/pub...rature/2014/sep/hospital-administrative-costs
From their own study.
"Other limitations are that there is no international standard for hospital cost accounting, and that our alignment of categories was imperfect. Our analysis allocated some capital costs to administration, based on the administration share of operating expenses. Our analysis handled capital costs uniformly across the eight nations. However, it should be noted that Dutch hospitals? capital costs are higher than those in the United States, and about double those of the other European nations.
Our data do not address the question of which components of administrative spending drive international differences. However, fragmentary data from other sources suggest that a larger number of managers and clerical workers?not differences in wage levels, benefit costs, or nonwage costs?explains much or all of the higher administrative costs in US hospitals compared to hospitals in the other nations we studied."
So basically garbage stat to say one quarter. Then you look at their appendix of what goes into their administrative costs. Salaries is one of the things. Want to know why those other nations don't have happy employees working for them and are going to end up struggling to fill doctor positions in the future. It's called not paying people enough money. The didn't give enough info as to how much of insurance goes into their mixed administrative and clinical costs. I can only imagine that is higher in the US with all the idiots who jump on lawsuits to get their cut of someone else's misfortune under the knife/care of a physician.
But absolutely, if you guys want to pay 16% of your paycheck to the government for universal shitty care do so. After all $16k out of your $100k hurts a lot less than $3.2k out of $20k for the poor folks. But fuck those guys, right?