Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer) (2020)

Re:Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer... by miki123211 on Saturday October 19, 2024 @05:52AM (#41886823)

> So on the ground level, it's already clear some of our highest paid most valuable people spend 20-30% of their time on a flavor of administrative junk

This is most definitely not just a US problem. I work adjacent to this industry in Poland, where we basically have a single-payer system[1], and I'd say 20-30% is definitely in the ballpark.

Especially in larger institutions (think hospital, not a single doctor's office), records must be kept and handovers between different doctors must occur. This means that you have to do all this work anyway, regardless of how much of it is actually transmitted to the insurance provider, and in our case, it's definitely far, far too little.

[1] we do have private healthcare, but that's typically small / less-complicated procedures and usually covered out-of-pocket by those who can afford it, so there are no insurance considerations there.

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Re:Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer... by inglor_cz on Saturday October 19, 2024 @11:55AM (#41888524)

"This is most definitely not just a US problem. I work adjacent to this industry in Poland, where we basically have a single-payer system[1], and I'd say 20-30% is definitely in the ballpark."

I wonder if this could be the killer app for AI. Teach it how to do this sort of bureaucracy instead of humans, and let doctors treat actual people instead.

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