Comments on: Insurance Industry Pushes For Health Insurance Mandate http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/11/20/insurance-industry-pushes-for-health-insurance-mandate/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: zic http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/11/20/insurance-industry-pushes-for-health-insurance-mandate/comment-page-1/#comment-2956 zic Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:40:02 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/11/20/insurance-industry-pushes-for-health-insurance-mandate/#comment-2956 There was a diary on dKos a few weeks ago by a Canadian relocated to the US, worked in a hospital billing office first in a Canadian hospital then a US hospital that was (as I recall, don't hold me to this,) smaller. The Canadian hospital had a staff of five to do the job that the US hospital required a staff of over 100 folks to do the same work. I my doc's office, there are more folks working in the office doing billing then delivering health care to patients. I know we need jobs in this country, but I think we're building an Easter Island economy; employing people in the task of carving larger and larger stone statues so that 20,000 can live on 14 sq. miles in the middle of the Pacific Ocean (the naval of the world) peacefully. When another raft full of souls drift our way, we'll either starve or eat each other. (In other words, this is a false economy; it would be better to go single payer and invest that money directly in health care, shift those jobs to other sectors, like growing a green economy, education, etc.) There was a diary on dKos a few weeks ago by a Canadian relocated to the US, worked in a hospital billing office first in a Canadian hospital then a US hospital that was (as I recall, don’t hold me to this,) smaller. The Canadian hospital had a staff of five to do the job that the US hospital required a staff of over 100 folks to do the same work.

I my doc’s office, there are more folks working in the office doing billing then delivering health care to patients.

I know we need jobs in this country, but I think we’re building an Easter Island economy; employing people in the task of carving larger and larger stone statues so that 20,000 can live on 14 sq. miles in the middle of the Pacific Ocean (the naval of the world) peacefully. When another raft full of souls drift our way, we’ll either starve or eat each other. (In other words, this is a false economy; it would be better to go single payer and invest that money directly in health care, shift those jobs to other sectors, like growing a green economy, education, etc.)

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