Why do people vote for Hilary and Obama?

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Kasz216 said:

elprincipe said:

Kasz216 said:

elprincipe said:

Kasz216 said:

 

Fortune Magazine, May 15th 2006 cites the Veteran's healtcare as the most cost-efficent healthcare in the country. So. Yeah... there ya go.

They have a 90 out of 100 rating while spending the least amount of money. Pretty amazing i'd say.

Wow, surprising to hear. Do you have a link where I can read this article? I know there are several in this thread that would like me to visit the crow-eating thread :)

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/05/15/8376846/index.htm

Wow, this is surprising and wonderful to hear. While I will still maintain my point that generally the private sector does it better, and even point out that in certain areas now and definitely over the long haul the private sector will do this better as well (as soon as they get off their asses and use IT to improve health care as the VA has done), I shall certainly visit the Crow Eating Thread due to this information. Thanks for the information!

The problem is it takes the government sector to spur this change because the private sector was afraid to use this technology because if it failed just once they'd have some lawsuits on their hands. That and the systems themselves were so effective before the implmentation of it at the VA that only the largest healtcare providers could afford it. Those that could didn't want to take a risk that could blow up in their face and force them to lose ground to their competitors.

I mean, you'd be surprised how much money gets spent on things like advertisments and consumer marketing for hospitals. My one teacher used to consult for hospitals all the time... for a modest fee he'd find out how to best position themselves against other hospitals.

If it weren't for the VA and government healthcare this stuff wouldn't of reached hostpitals for a long long time. Even now it'll probably take forever for a decent number of healthcare providers to get it.

Sometimes the government is the only entity to take a leadership role in research and development. ARPANET.