laklak wrote:True to a degree. One of the biggest problems with Medicare and Medicaid is the unbelievably bloated bureaucracy and byzantine regulations. Mrs. Lak finally gave up clinical OT work because she was spending as much time filling out government paperwork (unpaid time, that) as she did actually treating patients. She worked till 10 or 11 at night almost every work night keeping up with the paperwork. One could be forgiven for looking at the regulations and deciding their true purpose was to increase costs.
Another issue is litigation. Doctors order a slew of unnecessary and expensive tests because if they fart sideways someone will sue them. You see ads on TV all the time about class actions lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies or for specific surgical procedures or devices. Tort reform would go a long way to solving that issue, but it never gets a look in through Congress.
All reasonable points.