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There have been accusations, including some by our president, that doctors sometimes order procedures just to make a profit.  For instance, that doctors are more likely to cut out tonsils, or cut off legs, or perform c-sections, just because these make more money and are easier than trying to find out why the tonsils are swollen, why a leg is rotting off, or waiting for birth to be natural. They say the cure for this is supposed to be government run healthcare and not for profit healthcare, as these evils are the result of capitalism. Yes, if you are a doctor, and you are cutting out tonsils or cutting off legs just to make a profit, than you are a despicable doctor.  Still, government run healthcare will not solve this problem, only make them worse.  I can give you some real life examples to make my point. According to modern healthcare regulations, if you come to the emergency room with generic dyspnea, and the doctor even thinks you should be admitted, you will receive...

During the course of the past ten years many smaller hospitals have either closed their doors or merged with larger hospitals. There are various reasons for this, but I think one of the main reasons is  corporate cronyism . It's always existed to a certain degree, but it has been put on steroids since during the Obama administration. This is not a criticism of Obama, it's just an observation. Okay, so money has always played a significant role in politics. You will always have corporations that make a lot of money, everybody always wants more (I don't care who you are) and the lure of making more money is always seductive.  Now, I don't have a problem with corporations making lots of money, and I never will.  I believe there is plenty of money to go around, enough so that every person, every corporation, in the world could be rich if they made the effort; if they sacrificed their time, and took the risks.  I mean, that's what American Exceptionalism is all about....

So large hospital groups have succeeded in beating out the competition by supporting big government, which in turn creates laws that create regulations that smaller hospitals cannot afford. This, in turn, causes their competitors to either close their doors, or they have no choice but to merge with the larger groups. This, in turn, has resulted in higher healthcare costs. This is contrary to the promise that healthcare costs would go down under Obamacare. Yet Obamacare has made it easier to merge, and easier to charge high prices. In fact, Obamacare almost encourages it through incentives. Check out here some quotes from Forbes.com. This has had a great impact on the healthcare industry.  This is how larger hospitals have beat out their competition -- gobbled up the competition -- without even having a better product, or regardless of having a better product. Here's a quote from Forbes: The average day spent in a U.S. hospital costs five times as much as it does in other industrial...

Fresh out of respiratory therapy school 20 years ago the medical profession seemed so right.  Doctors always properly diagnosed patients and everything they ordered was always necessary. Then, after studying charts and assessing patients before and after every procedure I did, unexpected revelations occurred. Most of what we do is a waste of time or delays time No diagnosis can be trusted Look, what I am about to say does not reflect, in any way, my respect for physicians and the institutions they work for.  In fact, I in no way expect any person to be perfect, and therefore it's not possible for every thing they order to be necessary, nor every diagnosis to be accurate.   What is my evidence?  Why is this true? Yes, I will get to the answers.  I've written enough about useless breathing treatments on this blog to choke a cow, so I don't want to get into that too much here.  But any respiratory therapist is taught to assess a patient before and after every ...

The following was written by Roger Canon, LRT There have been accusations, including some by our president, that doctors sometimes order procedures just to make a profit.  For instance, that doctors are more likely to cut out tonsils, or cut off legs, or perform c-sections, because these make more money and are easier than trying to find out why the tonsils are swollen, why a leg is rotting off, or waiting for birth to be natural. The cure for this is supposed to be government run healthcare and not for profit healthcare, as these evils are the result of capitalism. Yes, if you are a doctor and you are cutting out tonsils or cutting off legs just to make a profit than you are a despicable doctor.  Still, government run healthcare will not solve this problem, only make it worse.  I can give you some real life examples to make my point. According to modern healthcare regulations, if you come to the emergency room with generic dyspnea, and the doctor even thinks you should b...

Some of my asthmatic friends constantly criticize pharmaceuticals as run by a bunch of evil rich people who are greedy and make money at the expense of the sick.  Their evidence is the fact that newer, non-patented, asthma medicine costs so much.  I would like to argue that pharmaceutical companies (or most of them) are run by people who simply want to make enough profit to stay in business. It is true that asthma medicine costs too much. Consider that if your doctor prescribes Advair to control your asthma, it will cost you about $250 a month if you pay out of pocket.  If you have a copay the cost will be about $70 per month.  This copay is high, considering a typical copay for generic medicine is between $20 and $40 a month.  Consider the following facts as reported by medicine.net, " Drugs: Why they cost so much? " The high price of Advair is not the result of greed, but of regulation. In fact, pharmaceuticals are constantly looking to find new medicines to h...