5% of Hospital patients using 50% of care

[MTUpower]

Is it any wonder health care costs are high? When 5% of patient use 50% of the care- and they are on the govt dole, you don't have to wonder anymore. Give some education - health education- and time to those people and we as a nation might not need all the govt "help" of the ACA. Yes, I see that this person and fact appears to be known because of the ACA- but one of my Dr friends told me this nearly same story long ago. People which do not understand that their body is like a machine which you have to have a personal involvement and personally take care of are the ones who soak up the time, money, energy and profit of a hospital.

[Fulcrum525]

Preventative maintenance, what a thought

[Botnst]

Euthanize the 5%. Problem solved.

[rs899]

Exactly. Under single payer systems (even with the waste, fraud and abuse), resources are fully utilized whereas we have excess idle capacity. Who pays for that?

[MTI]

Originally Posted by Botnst

Euthanize the 5%. Problem solved.

Then we can round up the next 5%, and the next . . .

[cmbdiesel]

Originally Posted by Botnst

Euthanize the 5%. Problem solved.

There it is...
Buy a Twinkie, catch a bullet.

We as a nation would be stronger and healthier...
Do it for the children....

[Botnst]

It will probably help the gene pool, too.

We could compost the bodies and use them for mulching organic, non-GMO leafy vegetables.

[MTI]

Elysium

[Air&Road]

Yeah, I have lived a clean life. No smoking, drinking, drugging. I eat right most of the time and exercise. I've never been admitted to a hospital. I've had health issues like broken bones, but always out patient.

Clean life, and good luck of course, but never in the hospital..... Funny how it works that way.

A pilot acquaintance of mine is an ER doctor. I've never heard him talk about people who neglect themselves and end up in the hospital, but of course those aren't the patients he sees. He did, however, get wound up one time about how many people he sees that piled up a motorcycle with no helmet, no insurance, no nothing.

[Air&Road]

Originally Posted by Botnst

It will probably help the gene pool, too.

We could compost the bodies and use them for mulching organic, non-GMO leafy vegetables.

Soylent Green is my favorite flavor. Yum!

[MTI]

The system monitoring Ms. Wrights care is following a model I read about over the years, that with an investment in outreach, you can significantly reduce or eliminate ER and critical care visits.

[cmbdiesel]

Originally Posted by Air&Road

Soylent Green is my favorite flavor. Yum!

[sloride]

Wait until all of these new people who are going into the medicare plan free start using it, it will then be 5% of the people using 90% of doctors visits. When it's free there will be no reason not to go see the doc. Oh I just blew a fart better go make an appointment with the Dr.

[MTI]

Originally Posted by sloride

Wait until all of these new people who are going into the medicare plan free start using it, it will then be 5% of the people using 90% of doctors visits. When it's free there will be no reason not to go see the doc. Oh I just blew a fart better go make an appointment with the Dr.

And when they can address a fart for less costs than full blown explosive diarrhea involving a hospital stay and surgical intervention . . Isn't that a better outcome?

Did you read the OP link?

[Simpler=Better]

Originally Posted by MTI

And when they can address a fart for less costs than full blown explosive diarrhea involving a hospital stay and surgical intervention . . Isn't that a better outcome?

Did you read the OP link?

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If uninsured person goes in for a "minor" complaint (now using a doc instead of an ER) and gets set on the right path (maybe those dizzy spells were from low blood sugar/ diabetes) then we won't be paying for an ER trip when it gets worse later on, because they will (hopefully) follow the advice from visit #1 and get set straight.