Must-read on health care

[hudebnik]

If you care about the U.S. government's budget deficit...
If you care about the competitiveness of U.S. businesses...
If you care about economic fairness...
If you care about preventing individual bankruptcies...
If you care about health care for all...

you must read Steven Brill's detailed exploration of the costs of the U.S. health care system.

If you already know how incredibly inefficient and corrupt the system is, read the article anyway: it's even more inefficient and corrupt than you thought.

Comments

[hudebnik.livejournal.com]

I was at the dentist last week and asked how much I owed on the previous visit. The receptionist explained that, after six months, the insurance company hadn't reimbursed them yet, nor even told them how much it would be. But her mother happened to have the same insurer I do, so she had a bootleg copy of the reimbursement schedule, which she could use to guess what I owed.

Helluva way to run a railroad....

This FAIR thing sounds cool. But the first search I tried on the "consumer" section of the site produced a page of SQL error messages, and the next one (for the rare, obscure word "orthodontia") produced no results. Needs some work on the implementation side.

[siderea]

Oh dear. Try a different browser? It was working great for me.