A Few Notes on Hospitals, and US Health Care Spending
What’s wrong with this headline: “Falls in hospitals are not preventable and the burden shouldn’t be borne by hospitals.” See our answer here.
Study: Best hospitals are physician-run.
The hospitals’ argument for spending more money on hospitals: they employ people.
US spending on health care in 2009 per person: $8086. That’s more than $32,000 a year for a family of four.
It does not surprise me that the study found that the best hospitals are physician-run.
I can see how the best hospitals are physician run. The view that hospitals are major employers is an obstacle to closing inefficient, poorly run community hospitals.
I am picturing future headlines where we look back at $8,000+ per person and say, “Those were the days.”
I agree with Kennedy. The study about the best Hospitals being physician run is a great example of local knowledge in the marketplace.