In article >,
Dave Smith > wrote:

> > IMHO tho', the ideal solution would be to somehow bring down that cost.
> > A lot of the cost is compliance and regulation. Being a section
> > supervisor in the lab, I have a LOT of experience with compliance
> > regulations!
>
> Good luck. Health care is a very lucrative business in the US, and they
> have well funded lobby that tries hard to convince the government that
> government run day care reeks of communism and will be the ruin of the
> health care industry. It will certainly have an impact on the money to
> be made by private hospitals and health insurance business.

Greed plays a big part. I know that.
I've seen it here when a group of docs opened their own imaging center
to insured patients only. It hurt the hospital enough, they had to sell
it...

and guess who whined the most? <g>

We are now owned by the Christus Health System. It's huge.
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