Impeding changes to our Health Care system

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Originally Posted by BigV

Why is our health care so expensive?

We're at over 2500 posts in this thread. When the thread started, there was a good discussion about defining what was wrong with health care and where the outrageous costs come from.

The best information was in a chart posted, by UT of course, in post 152.

I'm not going to restate what that chart said, and more importantly the independent study behind UT's link, but lawyers and malpractice costs are responsible for only a small part of the outrageous costs. There are numerous factors, and the biggest was health care administration. This rings true. Go to any doctors office. There are usually like 5 people behind the desk for every doctor in the place. Too much paperwork.