From the Economist.com (via PointofLaw.com via overlawyered's Twitter)
Insurance companies are to blame from 42% of respondants
Trial lawyers are to blame from 24% of the respondants
Washington is to blame from 20% of respondants.
Fascinating. Insurance companies (like every third party) isn't without its problems. But, exactly how are insurance companies to blame? When you wreck your Ford focus and it costs $1000 to repair the bumper, is that the fault of State Farm? Insurance companies collect money from you, take a small cut, and then pay for your neighbor with the 30 medical problems to sit on her couch smoke cigarettes, eat Cheetos and watch Oprah.
The public has no idea how inefficient our health care is because of the massive government regulatory structures in place that demand inefficiency. A self fulfilling spiral of financial doom that feeds on itself and guarantees millions of Americans jobs for no other purpose than to support the bloated structure known as American health care.
The public's perception and the reality of the situation are in need of a major educational initiative.
2 Outbursts:
A dysfunctional system breaks down on every level.
Your blaming the government is no more insightful than people blaming insurance companies.
We all share blame.
Government.
Insurance companies.
Hospitals.
Patients.
Doctors.
If you are not part of the solution, than you are part of the problem.
All the crap flows down hill. Patients, doctors, hospitals and insurance companies all respond to the rules and regulations established by their government because that's the one giving away money by rules that nobody else has to follow. I can assure you if you took the government and their false economies out of the equation everyone down hill would respond in amazing ways you can't even begin to imagine. We have lived the lie in American health care so long, we can't believe there is a better way. I'm telling you there is. But it requires the government to step aside and let doctors doctor for the right reason.
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