daveman
Diamond Member
Yeah. When was the last time you got to see your doctor at the time of your appointment?You know there's only so many hours in the day, right? There are only so many exam rooms in each doctor's office.
Obamacare doesn't change that.
I don't know. When I started working at my company, we had a Operations Manager, a Materials Manager, a Production Sceduler and 8 buyers.
Thanks to various kinds of streamlining we've done, we are still doing just as much volume with those first three positions consolidated into one and having 4 buyers instead of 8.
The notion that the medical operation can't find efficiencies is laughable. Every other industry has had to in the last five years.
I don't recall ever having done so.
And do you know why all that paperwork is there?What we need to get rid of in the medical industry is a lot of what we call muda in manufacturing (Japanese for waste). Redundant testing, redundant record keeping, and so on.
My doctor has three health care providers and three people who are responsible for doing paperwork. That's just whack.
To satisfy government requirements. You know -- the same government you stupidly claim is going to make healthcare more efficient.
Moron.