In many metropolitan areas, as much as a fivefold variation in mortality risk for common surgical procedures exists among hospitals, Given our health system’s capabilities, the human cost of using it is unacceptably steep.
Source: The Heath Care Blog
There are no easy solutions to ease the physician shortage. If doctors agreed to work 12-hour days, seven days a week that would about double the capacity. Of course that’s not going to happen. Or doctors could cut down the length of each visit from 10-15 minutes to 5-7 minutes. I doubt that would really work well either. But what if you could pay to jump to the head of the line? Or pay extra to make the line much shorter? That is possible, if not controversial.
Americans need significantly less income in old age than you might think. And thanks to the replacement of traditional pensions with 401(k)s, Americans have more income in retirement than ever before.