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There are 4 groups attempting to control health care: hospitals, insurance companies, government and doctors/providers. The last group is loosing the battle.
1) Hospitals, and their affiliates, cost American’s nearly $1 trillion dollars in 2006. (That’s 50% of this $2 trillion/year industry.) They account for the greatest amount of growth in healthcare spending, Their pricing continue to grow at a rate 6 times greater than their utilization.
2) Insurance
companies are necessary, but not to the level they have embedded
themselves in health care. I believe they started with the best
intentions, but have lost their focus. I intend to help refocus and
show them how they can really help Hoosiers.
Further, they have eliminated the transparency of cost vital to any consumer. You have more information regarding the price and quality of a box of cereal, than you can attain about your health care. This is by design. Insurance lobbies have fought to control and limit information at the Federal and State levels and have had great success.
3) Uncle Sam has become Dr. Sam and he never had a day a medical training. Government should regulate
health care, not dictate health care processes as it currently does on
the Federal level.
State governments have the ability to regulate health care but Indiana has failed to do so in the patients best interest. This is true for a number of reasons - yes, lobbies are one of those reasons.
4) Health providers, hit with increased regulation, decreased compensation, and greater patient loads have little time to advocate for their patients outside of the clinical setting. They, along with the patients, have been out lobbied and bullied into a position of survival not control. The result is profit focused medicine , not patient focused medicine.
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