U.S. healthcare reform: insurance companies shouldn't manage our ...

Healthcare shouldn?t be managed under a system that attempts to maximize profits for insurance companies and their CEOs and stock holders. The U.S. healthcare system is becoming impossible under the current fee for service system, which is due to insurance companies managing our healthcare decisions with profit as their bottom line.

Dylan Ratigan:

[W]e don?t have a health care system, we have a treatment sales system. The more tests and treatments a doctor can sell, the more money he or she can make in fees ? that means there?s a financial incentive to order an extra MRI or perform a surgery that may or may not be completely necessary.

This system is commonly called the ?fee for service? model for medical practice. That, in turn, is married to an employer-based health insurance monopoly ? the combination drives up costs for all of us. (Perhaps that?s why we spend more money than any other country worldwide on health care, but come in at #37 in quality of care.)

To discuss the issues with our model ?fee for service? healthcare, Dylan was joined by former DNC chair Dr. Howard Dean ? he has called ?fee for service? the single biggest barrier to controlling health care costs in America. Also in this segment is Charlie Kolb, president of the Committee for Economic Development, which represents a wide variety of major corporations in this country.

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In the United States, an MRI scan is $1009.00

In Britain it?s $187.00.

In the?United States, bypass surgery costs over $59,000, in Britain just shy of $14,000.

Why do we pay so much, more than any other country in the world, and have relatively so little to show for it?

We outspend the rest of the world but in a country like France, which spends half as much as we do, the people live longer, they have lower infant mortality rates and they don?t have the obesity problems that we have.

~ Charlie Kolb, President of the Committee for Economic Development

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