Legal Commentary

That health care overhead

By Tom Kirkendall

Following on this post from earlier in the week on the adverse impact that the third party payer system of health care finance has had on controlling health care costs, check out this Catherine Rampell post that passes along the graph on the left and the following startling observation:

?For every doctor, there are five people performing health care administrative support.?

And we are about to implement changes in the health care finance system that increases the third party payer element that requires much of this administrative support? While dramatically increasing the number of people covered under such a third party payment scheme with no provision for increased supply of medical services to meet that additonal demand?

What possibly could go wrong?

Full post as published by Houston's Clear Thinkers on April 16, 2010 (boomark / email).