Monday, January 21, 2008

D + D + D = Cost Effectiveness

If you don't "live" within the health care delivery system, you may not know what the term "Cost Effective" means. Roughly translated, if the state must spend more than it wants to on care at home for the elderly person, the elderly person is no longer Cost Effective. The next step is an understaffed nursing home where the elder is demoralized and dehumanized. Death usually follows rather quickly, leaving funds available to put elsewhere. Good business, right? I wonder what God thinks about squeezing those pennies for care and then literally blowing money away in accouterments for a life-style that the AHCCCS administration simply must have! Can anyone out there find out the amount of their salaries? I really want to know...

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