Comments on: Study Predicts Ballooning Health Costs

Hospital-Building Boom And Cost Shifting From The Uninsured Are To Blame, Audit Finds

[itgranny]

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So, now the hospital has a multimillion dollar machine and addition they need to pay for. Is the cost divided up amongst the people who use the MRI machine? No, it%u2019s divided up among EVERYONE! The mom who had a natural birth, the family of the kid who stepped on a piece of glass and needed stitches in his foot, the little old lady with pneumonia and the psych case who needed a padded room; all these share in the cost of that new MRI.

I can%u2019t help but wonder how hard these health care facilities are trying to keep costs down. For most of us, we need to ask ourselves %u201Cis this expenditure really necessary?%u201D before we buy our new toys, add on to our houses etc. Maybe our health care providers need to do the same thing.


Case in point: A local hospital used to be served by a mobile MRI machine. The truck would come several half days a week and appointments were made to see them. If it was an emergency, they were taken by ambulance or helicopter to a larger hospital. It was decided they were going to get their own machine at the cost of millions and millions for the addition plus a new machine and now the machine and room sits empty several half days a week plus the people who are in bad shape still get medivaced out because their treatment is going to be more complex than the hospital can handle.

[lovegetpeace]

One of the reasons for the expensive American HealthCare cost is there is no Preventive Care since everyone and our Government cannot afford it. Every study prove that preventive care pays in the long run.

There is Absolutely no Investment for the Future of America.

Profit now and let the future generation figure out how to pay for it.

[lovegetpeace]

American Attorneys love to Specialize in Malpractice Lawsuits. I wonder why?

[lovegetpeace]

American Attorneys love to Specialized in Malpractice Lawsuits and they love to scapegoat the Undocumented Aliens. I wonder why?

[lovegetpeace]

Capitalism got no Heart by design. Any HealthCare system requires a Heart or we get what we have here in America.

[deacon20081]

Service Companies and Business are going to start doubling the costs to physicians and medical professionals. I know I will.

[lovegetpeace]

Americans are Fat (Obese) because they are Lazy. Great motto for the world.

[deacon20081]

Yeah those $2500 toliet seats and $900 ashtrays were great buys.

Posted by mjvw2 at 04:54 PM : Jun 17, 2008"

Not to mention those malfunctioning showers for servicemen in Iraq - - oops those were provided by Haliburton !!!!


Gives new meaning to taking a "Hot Shower" when Haliburtons "expert electricians" Practice their electrocution techniques and electrocute GI''s.

[jumkey]

ociety has no problem with fornication, adultery, underaged ***, and homosexuality and people are surprised there are health cost increases! Downright laughable if it weren''''t so sad.

Posted by denn034

Mixing bigotry, stupidity AND economic irrationality all in a single sentence.

I don''t know how you wingnuts can even muster enough brain cells to breath, much less speak.

[thebruce385]

lovegetpeace, there is your top five of life expectancy. Wow, only one industrialized nation and that one, being Japan, is a country that has a much heathier lifestyle than the USA, i.e. eating better, (when was the last time you saw a fat Japanese person), exercise (wonder where Tai Chi came from), etc. As to the USA being at a competitive disadvantage, I wonder why we still are the top of the list in regard to GNP (gross national product since I thought that you might not know that)in the world. You really need to move back to that country you came from because I would hate to continue to have to see you suffer here in the US. By they way are you even legal, do you have a job that pays taxes, or are you one of the freeriders adding to the cost of health care.


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Posted by tmcattack at 03:46 PM : Jun 17, 2008"

$ trillions spent on the so called best healthcare in the world and you asshats can''t even beat lil ole "un developed" San Marino for life expectancy ???
As I said before the US does rank at the top for stupidity, ignorance, inefficiency and wastefulness