re: What is Healthcare's future?

True. However wages and reimbursement is not the bulk of the costs. There is not enough savings to be had by cutting those even in half. There are studies that prove that. To incur significant savings major changes would be needed and quite frankly, Americans are not ready for that. It would require a modicum of personal responsibility and the allocation of resources to be efficient. We want our HTN meds-not to exercise. We want antibiotics for that viral cold and we want granny to stay in ICU for a month after her stroke and wither away with a trach in an LTAC/SNF for another year until she dies of pneumonia.