Hmmm... from Jerry Pournelle's blog

[daveon]

The way to lower prices is to increase supply, or decrease demand. 

OR reduce costs.

A multipage, itemised invoice from the hospital for M's operation doesn't come keep.  Nor, I suspect do the army of admins I see moving files in my Doctor's office. 

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[daveon.livejournal.com]

The paperwork associated with seeing a Doctor here is amazing. Every visit generates a bill which is then cross referenced with the insurance and the amount you pay versus the insurance payments. Every script has the same and so on and so forth. You generate reams of paper just with a couple of check ups a year.