Comments on: Health Care Reform – 3 Truths and 5 Parts To a Solution http://www.joeabraham.com/345/health-care-reform-3-truths-and-5-parts-to-a-solution/ Entrepreneur Consulting & Small Business Development Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:25:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: joeabraham http://www.joeabraham.com/345/health-care-reform-3-truths-and-5-parts-to-a-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-110 joeabraham Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:04:04 +0000 http://www.joeabraham.com/?p=345#comment-110 Good point Bill. The studies I have looked at suggest that our problem isn't a supply-and-demand issue (enough patients or enough doctors/nurses). The issue is all the people in between the patient and the doctor/nurse. The insurance companies and bureaucrats have too much say.<br><br>For example, if you look at cosmetic surgery, it is typically not an insurable procedure. So the patient pays the doctor directly. Over the past 20 years, the cost of cosmetic surgery has dropped while the service and technology surrounding it has gone up. That's free enterprise at it's best without big business (insurance cos) and big government intervening. <br><br>I have read reports that we have a shortage of nurses, so if that is what you were leaning toward, I do think that is a hole that needs to be plugged. Not sure what impact that would have on health care costs. Good point Bill. The studies I have looked at suggest that our problem isn't a supply-and-demand issue (enough patients or enough doctors/nurses). The issue is all the people in between the patient and the doctor/nurse. The insurance companies and bureaucrats have too much say.

For example, if you look at cosmetic surgery, it is typically not an insurable procedure. So the patient pays the doctor directly. Over the past 20 years, the cost of cosmetic surgery has dropped while the service and technology surrounding it has gone up. That's free enterprise at it's best without big business (insurance cos) and big government intervening.

I have read reports that we have a shortage of nurses, so if that is what you were leaning toward, I do think that is a hole that needs to be plugged. Not sure what impact that would have on health care costs.

]]> By: Bill Nilsson http://www.joeabraham.com/345/health-care-reform-3-truths-and-5-parts-to-a-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Bill Nilsson Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:45:54 +0000 http://www.joeabraham.com/?p=345#comment-109 Do you think that if we could introduce more Doctors and Nurses into the mix we could affect price? Do you think that if we could introduce more Doctors and Nurses into the mix we could affect price?

]]> By: joeabraham http://www.joeabraham.com/345/health-care-reform-3-truths-and-5-parts-to-a-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-99 joeabraham Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:04:04 +0000 http://www.joeabraham.com/?p=345#comment-99 Good point Bill. The studies I have looked at suggest that our problem isn't a supply-and-demand issue (enough patients or enough doctors/nurses). The issue is all the people in between the patient and the doctor/nurse. The insurance companies and bureaucrats have too much say.<br><br>For example, if you look at cosmetic surgery, it is typically not an insurable procedure. So the patient pays the doctor directly. Over the past 20 years, the cost of cosmetic surgery has dropped while the service and technology surrounding it has gone up. That's free enterprise at it's best without big business (insurance cos) and big government intervening. <br><br>I have read reports that we have a shortage of nurses, so if that is what you were leaning toward, I do think that is a hole that needs to be plugged. Not sure what impact that would have on health care costs. Good point Bill. The studies I have looked at suggest that our problem isn't a supply-and-demand issue (enough patients or enough doctors/nurses). The issue is all the people in between the patient and the doctor/nurse. The insurance companies and bureaucrats have too much say.

For example, if you look at cosmetic surgery, it is typically not an insurable procedure. So the patient pays the doctor directly. Over the past 20 years, the cost of cosmetic surgery has dropped while the service and technology surrounding it has gone up. That's free enterprise at it's best without big business (insurance cos) and big government intervening.

I have read reports that we have a shortage of nurses, so if that is what you were leaning toward, I do think that is a hole that needs to be plugged. Not sure what impact that would have on health care costs.

]]> By: Bill Nilsson http://www.joeabraham.com/345/health-care-reform-3-truths-and-5-parts-to-a-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Bill Nilsson Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:45:54 +0000 http://www.joeabraham.com/?p=345#comment-98 Do you think that if we could introduce more Doctors and Nurses into the mix we could affect price? Do you think that if we could introduce more Doctors and Nurses into the mix we could affect price?

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