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Originally Posted by rahl
The fewer non-medical people in the system to keep a check on the health care industry, the faster prices will skyrocket for treatments. Hospitals and doctors offices are for profit, they should be they are a business. The doctor is providing a service that people want, he deserves to charge what he wants within reason. the haggleing between insurance companies and doctors offices does keep prices from going completelty out of control
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except that as we know, this is not true. The American healthcare system is, at the same time, the healthcare system with the highest overhead costs, and the healthcare system with one of the highest spending per capita, while having the worst outcomes of industrialized nations.