Six steps for real health reform in Utah

The wonders of the Web, I could therefore in possession of the interview, the legislator of the health reform task force a week ago. Members of the Task Force always fall spectators probably plenty of people with owners interested in the current health system, which everyone must be ready to give up something for health reform.

I could not agree more. We spend $ 2.3 trillion on health care this year in the USA, approximately $ 8000 per person and twice the median per capita spent on the costs of health care in other parts of the world. But we are at the bottom of rankings of the World War I in the prevention of deaths under the age of 75 health care interventions.

Of course, we are wasting our resources. So here is a list of what we have to give up, if we think seriously about reforming the health system. 
      
Health subscription: Each person critically ill or injured are treated in our health care system, health insurance if they are or not. Therefore, we should not try resources to the identification of persons who, Critical Illness, to exclude, after the price or the refusal of the acquisition of health financing. Rating community guaranteed problem sharing risks and effectiveness of health systems and the elimination of media coverage without a mandate, to changing costs and sharing. 

 Unsure hospital practice: The fifth leading cause of death in the announcement
   
USA is preventable, while injuries
Hospitalization, is that more deaths each year, breast cancer, HIV or car accidents. Tips for hospital stay injury suffered by the waste associated with $ 15 billion per year. 
      
Lack of care: Back to the fusion surgery simple degenerative disc disease occurs tens of thousands of times a year, but there are no clinical signs that the operation to reduce pain or damage nonsurgical more care. As with all surgical procedures, surgery merging back is decorated with numerous complications like infections, hemorrhages, the device failure, neurological problems and clotting. Many other common medical / surgical are also used improperly, without scientific basis at the clinic with a great effort. We need a mechanism of the company for the clinical application of science beneficial to our health. 
      
The perverse incentives: the Wall Street Journal “, April 5:” Research at Dartmouth Medical School, said that if everyone in America went to the Mayo Clinic, our health system annual accounts would be below 25 per cent (over 500 billion of dollars) and ways to improve the quality of care would be …. of course, not everyone can be treated in Mayo …. But why [is] this example of effective management and quality of care quality are not replicated across the country? The answer is that the high quality, low cost of maintenance is not financially viable. Indeed, the opposite is true. Hospitals and doctors can more money, ineffective, mediocre care. “ 
      
Market-based health policy: if we aimed at the elimination of perverse incentives, which leads to that inefficiency, poor care, we must abandon the idea gehegten that health care is an effective product distribution, market forces. We are not in principle, the fund health care by the private sector - 60 percent of revenue to pay for health care from the taxpayers, so that our citizens are more for health care All human beings in the world. In addition, health care has not market forces, as higher prices reduced demand. Nobody had ever appendicitis operation, because the price was correct. The emergence of diseases and injuries, first determine the demand for health care and services. 
       
Enjoy Denial: Claims costs are at least 10 percent higher than in Utah optimum would be effective. This is due mainly to health insurance model of competition between the functions of health plans for most creators deny health care costs. In response, doctors and hospitals his staff for the fight against the bill payment services, leads to wasting billions of dollars just in Utah.

A serious discussion on health reform task force requires attention to these six wasteful practices that we must abandon. Let us fear the status quo in health: billions of people in taxpayers wasted resources, while patients are dying unnecessarily in the health system.

Those who oppose health reform are really asking taxpayers to fund, while the welfare undertakings to be done to combat it “socialized medicine.”
 
  

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