The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care
I wish I had a link for this, but I believe as Obamacare was being drafted / the economy was in dire straits in 2009, the Obama administration had to make a choice about whether to radically streamline health care, but at the cost of killing employment in (at the time) the only growing sector of the United States.<p>They chose to not streamline it, which is understandable, but obviously a price had to be paid at some point.<p>Related story, went with my wife into a small but advanced local hospital where she has a surgical consult about her sinuses. This hospital was beautiful and fully loaded with all the latest technology, big screen TVs, tablets, etc. Nonetheless, in the waiting room there were 5 office admins each with dual monitors checking people in. It’s like they didn’t get any benefit at all from the technology......