Is this why government run healthcare will never be less expensive? - hospital bed price
Wheelchairs and walkers, and orthopedic shoes, needles, purchase health insurance for tens of thousands of daily products for older Americans. And could be the largest purchaser of medical products, one would assume that leastget a volume discount.
Not so. In fact, Medicare does not even at the best price.
According to its own auditors, know more than Medicare pays for almost everything you buy. Here are some examples:
- $ 7215 for renting an oxygen concentrator, if the purchase price is $ 600.
- 4018 $ for a standard wheelchair, while the private sector pays $ 1048.
- $ 1825 for a hospital bed, compared with an Internet Price $ 1071.
- $ 3335 for a respiratory pump, compared with a retail price of $ 1987th
- $ 82 for a kit for diabetics, rather than a price of $ 47 on the net.
In the past year tried the Health and Human Services Department, will replace its archaic fixed-price fee of 10 products commonly purchased with a purchasing program in 10 cities. The ministry saidMedicare could save $ 125 million in one year, or 1 billion U.S. if it is approved at the national level. But Congress intervened to stop it.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/ ...
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Hospital Bed Price Is This Why Government Run Healthcare Will Never Be Less Expensive?
8 comments:
You hit the nail on the head, that the government pay more for something, do not forget the sunglasses for $ 800?
Why are so dense that the Americans refuse to learn from the experiences of other countries?
Health expenditure per capita in the U.S., almost twice what it costs in the United Kingdom. And the British health care system - wait - from the NHS, managed a public authority.
You can do at home when you get your head Keister and not worth doing well.
They are 100% correct.
Medicare and patients are sometimes charged 3 times more for hospital services for other insurance, "" carrier.
WTF.
the sum of $ $ $ could be saved with just a little supervision.
Save America, Nuke Washington.
Both parties are to blame, and both should be sprayed. Time for a fresh start.
You have a very good knowledge of it.
Have a good part of it.
A big problem is that the government Medicare and other programs sponsored by health care negotiations with drug companies for lower prices is prohibited. Therefore, we have more money for drugs to do people from other countries.
Lipitor, a drug that lowers cholesteral is manufactured by Pfizer, an American company, but the Canadian, British and French pharmacies pay much less for Lipitor to our pharmacies, and the savings are passed on to patients.
I wonder how many millions of dollars from Big Pharma political contributions to avoid that the prices given to negotiate for their medications. I read stories about people without insurance or health insurance coverage gap, to reduce the dose in half to save money, or certain medications because they can not afford it.
As mentioned in the article above, the health care industry spends 2 million U.S. dollars per day, the lobbies in Congress. Also note that in general, the conservatives who defend the "free market" price and an attempt to significant bargaining power of the government to reduce costs.
Remember that the battle between Republicans and Democrats on the negotiation of the bill Medicare for prescription drugs. The Republicans argued that Democrats were trying to be a system of price controls and more important. Not really, but even this modest attempt to contain costs has been rejected by the Republicans.
It makes no sense to me either. When I arrived, had in Kuwait, the Army had been renting Suburbans at $ 1000.00 per month for each. Then, after three years, the vehicles were delivered, and Chevrolet. So that is $ 36K sour, as if the army easily purchased for less cars.
Insane.
To celebrate, I came across this e-mail from an Australian who enjoy the health of IBM and teleprompter does. Fun, and here it is:
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GIRL: Thank you Mr Pwesident!
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OBAMA: What?
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Crowd: [Applause]
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