> Judah wrote: > > As I've shown through actual, you know, facts and shit, the costs are > not all on the provider side Gruss. Many are. Many are not. You are a > fucking industry shill. >
Hey, last I heard, you worked in the Health Informatics industry. In other words you're an industry shill too right? But I say we try a reasonable conversation without the emotional screeds. Let's take a use-case and go back to the UPS example. If what you're saying is true we should be able to eliminate the administration and insurance variable - as we can with UPS - and UPS's medical costs per same age retiree should be mostly the same since the 70s. Do you think they are? Further, when we look at their per-claim processing cost, you'd argue those costs should've risen drastically (no IT productivity gains for example). Do you think they did? I'm going to bet - and it's just a bet - that their medical costs per retiree have skyrocketed while their admin costs have actually stayed the same or dropped. No if my bet is right, we could get a good understanding of the entire supply chain by replacing "UPS" with "group" and that would summarize the problem. And further if my bet is right, we'd probably hear a lot of Obama's healthcare experts talk about: * "bending the cost curve" by -- Driving data transparency to enable service comparison and "pure profiling" -- Creating standard medical policies & procedures to reduce variation -- Focusing on evidence-based care -- Defined cost controls -- Incenting the demand side to seek value -- Incenting the supply side to deliver value And, in fact, they are! So you must think all those Obama hires REALLY suck. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:300235 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
