Such a massive scam. Insurance, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, doctors, equipment suppliers (I was an engineer for GE Healthcare), the whole shebang. It's just a giant scam.
Edit- One more thing. I was in the CT/MRI modality. Do you know why a hospital puts everybody that they can into the CT scanner? You want to believe it's because that's a quick and easy way to find the problem and the hospital is just trying to give you the best care possible.
Wouldn't that be nice? I want to live in that world.
The reality is that the CT scanner is the single most profitable piece of equipment in the hospital. I have been retired for 12 years, but back then it was around $2k for a CT scan. $600 of that went to the radiologist for his 2 minutes of work reading the scan and speaking his report into the Dictaphone. The other $1400 is almost pure profit for the hospital. A typical CT scanner that cost $1.5M would be paid off in less than 2 months at an average hospital. It's a giant scam and I am ashamed to have made money as a part of it. I'm sorry.
Such a massive scam. Insurance, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, doctors, equipment suppliers (I was an engineer for GE Healthcare), the whole shebang. It's just a giant scam.
Edit- One more thing. I was in the CT/MRI modality. Do you know why a hospital puts everybody that they can into the CT scanner? You want to believe it's because that's a quick and easy way to find the problem and the hospital is just trying to give you the best care possible.
Wouldn't that be nice? I want to live in that world.
The reality is that the CT scanner is the single most profitable piece of equipment in the hospital. I have been retired for 12 years, but back then it was around $2k for a CT scan. $600 of that went to the radiologist for his 2 minutes of work reading the scan and speaking his report into the Dictaphone. The other $1400 is almost pure profit for the hospital. A typical CT scanner that cost $1.5M would be paid off in less than 2 months at an average hospital. It's a giant scam and I am ashamed to have made money as a part of it. I'm sorry.