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Originally Posted by pan6467
Still waiting to hear defnse of the current system and how we're going to pay for this nasty pandemic.......
The silence from the people opposed to scialized healthcare and supporters of the current system is deafening and very apparent they cannot answer and defend their stance.
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The current system is socialized, and as it moves farther to the left everyday it continues to get worse and worse. More government is not the solution here. There are over 132,000 pages of government regulations in medicare compared to 17,000 pages of tax code. I can't even comprehend how much money is being lost in bureaucracy.
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Big Challenges Ahead
Managed care is the accepted method of delivering medical care today – to the frustration of many. Read up! There are 132,000 pages of Medicare regulations, compared with only 17,000 pages of the tax code. A compliance plan to guard against mistakes in filing government forms is offered by your friendly attorney for a mere $7,000.
Additional employees are needed to file insurance forms and keep up with regulations in operating laboratories. Even more employees will soon be needed to implement the 1,500 pages of regulations protecting patient privacy – regulations that in reality turn control of all our medical records over to the US government and establish a national medical data bank.
Fines of up to $25,000 and 10 years imprisonment are possible for fraud and for mistakes that are hard to distinguish from fraud.
Capitation depersonalizes medicine. FDA regulations, though designed to help, often delay the arrival and raise the cost of new drugs. An average new drug now requires 15 years of testing and $500 million in costs. Many question whether or not this process is cost-effective. A more liberalized approach to allowing patients and doctors to use experimental medicines could speed up the process and lower costs.
Medical privacy rules are expected to cost $22 billion over 4 years to implement – costs that must be passed on to the taxpayer or to the patient.
HCFA has actually requested authority to carry guns on their audits.
Another challenge to personalized care is the continued influence of technology and super specialization. It’s easy for the patient to be lost in the process and become only an object in a scientific whirlwind. This challenge is not new, but it will continue to affect the practice of medicine to an even greater extent.
Legal challenges through lawyer-driven lawsuits are of epidemic proportion and will continue to plague our profession, thus driving up costs while prompting unnecessary testing. Threats of an actual lawsuit do affect the way we all practice. The National Practitioners Data Bank has been set up to keep all the records of doctors’ misconduct, which is also subject to the errors of politicians, bureaucrats and spiteful lawyers. Rectifying errors and avoiding misinterpretations in this process are difficult, if not impossible tasks. Centralized government bureaucracy won’t solve the problems of ethics and measuring ability in medicine.
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