Bureaucrats take a trillion "healthcare" dollars...
and patients suffer

There are too few therapists and no burn units; doctors can’t accept Medicaid patients and nurses are quitting, because too few “healthcare” dollars go to health...care

Imagine a big truck full of bags of money (below). The bags start rolling down the ramp. The federal bureaucracy takes the lion’s share. Then, insurance companies and corporate medicine take another big piece, and only a few dollars are left for patients and their care.

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Do you think the millions of rules and regulations are free? Can you build Health Insurance Exchanges or expand Medicaid for no cost? Do all those healthcare consultants, accountants, actuaries, billers and coders, compliance officers, lawyers, navigators, regulators, etc. work pro bono? THAT is where the money diverted from care services ends up.

The graph above shows the growth of the supply of healthcare providers (doctors) and healthcare bureaucrats (administrators). From 1975 to 2010, the doctor supply grew slightly less than 200 percent. Over the same time period, the number of healthcare administrators increased more than 3000 percent. Imagine where the administrator line is now with Obamacare. 4000 percent? 5000 percent?

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Who ultimately pays for Washington’s extravagant spending on itself? Today's patients, our children and our grandchildren.