Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ...
by tptacek on Friday February 21, 2020 @06:43PM
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That is a much higher estimate of admin overhead than other sources, covers both payer and provider administrative expenses, and implicitly attributes all provider administrative expenses to billing/coding.
But we don't have to litigate this in the context of the Lancet article. That article derives much higher savings from pharmaceutical price reductions than from administrative savings. We know with some certainty what percentage of overall spending comes from pharmaceuticals, and it is a low number.
Other studies looking at only hospital costs put it at 1.43% of GDP. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/journal-articl...