The bureaucracy of government is a burden born by private industry as well, so it's really not as black and white as that article snippet implies.
Not that any large corporation is a model of efficiency - most are the opposite, but that's not limited to healthcare. On Sep 24, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://huff.to/duZhZv > > "Long before the passage of the law, the government was highly > involved in the US health care system. In 2008 public expenditure on > health care was $3,507 for every man, woman and child in the U.S., and > private expenditure was $4,031. The United States spends far more on > health care than any other country, but the main discrepancy is in > private spending, not public spending. Compared with France for > example, in 2008 US public expenditures per capita were 22 percent > higher, but private expenditures per capita were 391 percent higher. > Yet, in contrast to France and other European nations which provide > universal medical coverage, about 47 million Americans - some 16 > percent of the US population - were uninsured in 2008." > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:327875 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
