Patient education is the only issue here, but most of the public has no desire to know anything about their care. They want a magic pill they can pop which will make it all better and they want to sit in a hospital as long as they feel like. This is because they aren't cognizant of the cost associated with them sitting around like a fool soaking up thousands of dollars in resources per day when they could be sitting at home healing instead.
One of the biggest flaws with the American health care system and single payer as well is that it's removed the cost component from peoples considerations of what care they should receive. We all pay for this idiocy in the form of our skyrocketing insurance premiums. Do you really think people would want to sit in a hospital if they actually had to pay the nursing staff $1000 per day out of pocket? If they had to pay the janitor $20 for coming into the room to clean up the mess they'd made? $200 for the physician followup? Of course not.
The above poster complaining about withholding opiates and statistically backed discharge time frames is a huge part of what's wrong with health care across the developed world- not just the US.
One of the biggest flaws with the American health care system and single payer as well is that it's removed the cost component from peoples considerations of what care they should receive. We all pay for this idiocy in the form of our skyrocketing insurance premiums. Do you really think people would want to sit in a hospital if they actually had to pay the nursing staff $1000 per day out of pocket? If they had to pay the janitor $20 for coming into the room to clean up the mess they'd made? $200 for the physician followup? Of course not.
The above poster complaining about withholding opiates and statistically backed discharge time frames is a huge part of what's wrong with health care across the developed world- not just the US.