An Ineffecient System

Paul Krugman had another editorial in the NY Times today (click for article), this time exposing the vast inefficiencies inherent in our system. He points out that although Americans spend more than any other country, a huge amount of that spending is consumed by wasteful inefficiency. He estimates that there are 2-3 million people in American employed to shuffle papers—to try to get someone else to pay for the cost of health care.
Most experts agree that one of the reasons there is so much waste in health care is because it is not universal. Every time someone loses their insurance—and it’s easy to lose—it ends up costing us more to keep that person healthy.