More On Healthcare

State Senator Judy Robson, a registered nurse from Beloit, offers some insight on the current dismal state of healthcare in this country.

http://wisopinion.com/index.iml?mdl=article.mdl&article=4841

Of interest:

We spend too much money on paperwork and red tape.The billing bureaucracy –
in hospitals, clinics, and insurance companies – takes up far too much of every
dollar spent on health care. We waste too much money on a bureaucracy that
contests whether every pill, every exam, every day in the hospital is justified.
The bureaucracy of our health care system costs $400 million a year. That’s 31
percent of every health care dollar spent in America, compared to 17 percent in
Canada.

And thanks to the Medicare prescription drug bill that the republican congress let the drug companies write:

And it’s getting worse. The new Medicare prescription drug benefit increases
our wasteful spending in two ways. First, the federal government is paying
top-dollar for prescription drugs instead of using its enormous purchasing power
to negotiate lower prices.Second, instead of a simple, efficient model like
Wisconsin’s SeniorCare, the federal government is funneling large amounts of tax
dollars through private insurance plans with high overhead.

We need reform and we need it now. The state legislature had their chances and blew it. It's time for a change!