Thought I'd start a new topic with this interview of the CEO of one of Houstons Largest Healthcare organizations. CEO Speaks Out
"We spend $2 trillion a year in this country on health care, more than anybody else in the world. Studies show there is somewhere around 22 percent administrative overhead built into health care between the government, insurance and doctors, labs and hospitals. A good system has 7 percent overhead." That is so very significant and true. Our medical redtape and waste due to our unwieldly antiquated system of provider methodology has to go. Let the real providers of healthcare....the hospitals....the doctors and nurses get the funds that are spent. I am not opposed to pharmaceuticals making a profit but they need to be looked at more as a national necessity and less of a free market enterprise hellbent on turning profits at the expense of our needy citizens. The market bears what the market bears because people need these life saving drugs and can't say no. If need overtakes economical means and people are unable to get what they need to maintain good health then that needs to changed. It could probably be done with just a little more monitoring by the FDA and more meddling by Congress as distasteful as that is to most of you right leaning capitalists.
So what if you can't get these life saving drugs because the pharmaceutical companies quit pouring money into new drugs? If you are the one that needs them in the future, what would you pay? :cry: That's what we need alright... Big Brother making big government even bigger. :roll:
I am all for profits going into R&D for new and better drugs and new and better ways to find alternative fuels or more efficient ways to develop the fuels we have. There are some manifestations of our capitalistic greed however that do not necessarily benefit R&D and better drugs and efficient energy. I am talking exorbitant executive compensation and other profit taking for private concerns rather than a reinvestment strategy designed for the betterment of all. Private greed needs to be eliminated from the business of oil and medicine completely. I am not for absolute government control of these two industries but the reins need to be pulled back considerably and both need an overhaul to a system that makes more sense and to one that ensures the best interest of all Americans is at the forefront and not those interests of just a very few of the wealthiest.
I know for a fact <t>that as much as I detest the pharmaceutical industry after working for both the mail service pharmacy and insurance coverage divisions, that in the case of the poor needing medication...I never once saw a case in which we couldn't find a program to get them a life saving medication. That isn't to say it doesn't happen... but I never saw it. I, or the manufacturer, was always able to come up with medication (even if it were free or government subsidized) I was able to help every person.<br/> <br/> Now the folks getting effed were the average joes with insurance coverage. Insurance is a gerd damned scam.</t>