Wednesday, March 4, 2009

USA health care -- how much pain?

Why Medical Onshoring (patent-pending)?

Consider the existing alternative -- the $2.4T (trillion) U.S. health care system.
  • High costs, putting tremendous financial strain on patients, families, employers, health plans/payors, providers, and taxpayers.
  • Uneven coverage and quality -- even with single-payer groups like VA.
  • Ruinous medical-malpractice costs, driving up (1) costs and (2) resulting in mostly-wasteful "defensive medicine" to deter malpractice lawsuits -- between $250B (billion) and $500B in wasted costs.
  • High administrative costs due to poor management and billing practices -- between $750B (billion) and $1T (trillion) in wasted costs.
This is on top of the USA's self-inflicted medical problems -- smoking, poor diet, alcoholism, drug abuse, and dangerous lifestyles -- as much as $750B (billion) in wasted costs.

Fixing half those issues would free up hundreds of billions of dollars spent on health care now -- wouldn't it?

Editorial note: as a new company, Medical Onshoring (patent-pending) is not shackled to the past. By requiring top performance and med-mal reforms, we will provide the maximal surgical service possible.

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