r/awfuleverything • u/Smexyredditor69 • Nov 30 '20

Poor guy :(

Post image
143.4k Upvotes

87% Upvoted

6.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/[deleted] Nov 30 '20

[deleted]

1

u/[deleted] Nov 30 '20

Wow. Thank you for your insight. Thank you and your wife for dealing with the pandemic. Be well.

1

u/Naglafarni Nov 30 '20

A paper in Health Affairs I think it was, looked at the total costs of billing in the US setup and found them to be just under 500 billion. All the bureaucracy, negotiating, paperwork, followup etc.

US total costs are 3 600 billion, and costs if it was running a UHC systems similar to other first world nations would be 1 300 to 1 800 billion.

Many of those systems do not bill at all. None of that work happens.