The State of Health Care

Over the New Year weekend my wife had to go into the hospital. She is in her last month of pregnancy and when she was at the doctor's office, she blacked out for a minute. The doctor sent her to the hospital to have her checked out. This was fine. They did every type of test known to man (EKG, CAT scan, X-rays, blood work,....) and the result was that they could not find anything wrong. I still do not have a problem with this. However, the next morning when my wife was visited by her doctor, the doctor said that she was going to see about getting her released. However, the specialist needed to OK the release. It took 5 hours to get the OK. This I have a problem with. You want to know why health care costs keep going up. At 9am my wife should have left the hospital and it would only have cost 1 day in the hospital. But since she was release after 11am, it counted as another day. This is what is driving health care costs up. They clear a bed by 2pm and now can bring someone else in and charge them for the day.

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