A new study estimates that American health care bureaucracy costs over $800 billion a year. commonhealth
published this month estimates that the country's health care bureaucracy costs over $800 billion a year. Other estimates range closer to $500 billion a year.
After nearly five years in Toronto, he didn't see the Canadian single-payer system as perfect, but he admired how it freed patients — and hospitals — from most medical bills. "We have a million faxes that come back and forth," she says."We do it online, the fax machine is going all day. The phones are usually going all day long."
The state Health Policy Commission is looking at complexity and its consequences, testified its executive director, David Seltz,"including confusion and anxiety for patients, provider burnout, and organizational distraction from other priority areas."
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