Re: Hospitals Hose Uninsured: For Herman


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Bulk purchasing does not function in a labor-intensive industry.
It
is
just an excuse to hose the uninsured.

That staement is pure denial.



It is a FAct. In a production assembley, the more you do, the
cheaper
it
gets. In a labor-intensive industry like hospitals, you add more
patients
you add more costs.

So you think it would be cost effective to open and run an entire
hospital
for a single patient? Volume matters you fool.


Correct they matter. More volume = more cost in a labor-intensive
industry like medicine. Insurance companies get to pay less because
they
can move a block of people at one time. That does not mean it costs
less
to
service each individual patient. Are you going to accept less pay the
more
patients you see? I thought not.

Ok - you ask someone of your friends who has a clue about cost structure
and
see if an entire hospital could survive with a patient base of 1. Don't
play the idiot.

You are playing the idiot by suggesting a hospital with 1 patient. It
shows your intelligence, ie 1.

It's called "exaggeration to make a point". I'm surprised a man of your
intelligence (ie, more than 1, whatever that means) hasn't heard of it. Let
make it easier for a smart man like yourself to understand.

An entire hospital, with an ER, an OR, hospital beds, specialists, etc etc
etc which were dedicated to a single patient would not survive. Increase
that patient base to 20 patients, and it stil doesn't survive. Going to the
other extreme, if it had 10's of thousands of patients there would be enough
patients to justify its services. Now, that means that somewhere in between
there are enough patients to start paying for the hospital. That is called
volume. What volume would of course depend on what services are offered,
how many employess, etc. But the bottom line is that volume matters.
Even an unintelligent person like myself knows that, George.


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