harvard economist david culter figures 10 percent of health care spending is wasted on unnecessary administrative costs by providers. he estimates another five percent is wasted on what he calls unnecessary overhead from insurance companies. probably another 10 to 15 percent is people who are readmitted to hospitals they don't need to be back there iof they got better care outside of the hospital or people who get infections in the hospital that if you avoided the infections you avoid the spending. so its care that just doesn't need to take place if the system were working well. for instance, the senate bill creates a pilot program for health providers to better coordinate care across doctors and for all to be accountable for all the treatments provided. its been estimated that new information technology in the healthcare field could save $77 billion a year its so critical that in order to make our health system more efficient that we require physicians and hospitals to have electronic medical records in order to not only for billing purposed but clearly so they can identify what's in their pract

think the public option contributes but it is not by any stretch the single most important factor david culter has worked on health care for years, including helping the clinton white house efforts 15 years ago. and the most recent senate proposal does not include a public option. instead, it expands medicaid with the goal of rooting out waste and fraud. however, some worry that if any government plan forces doctors to accept less money than it costs them to provide the care, it will continue to shift costs to the insured. if a public plan works the same way in reducing costs by cutting what providers are getting below their costs, its only going to....the problem we current exists with huge cost shifting back to employers so instead of paying 100 percent of a fee they're paying 150 percent of a service because the providers are not getting paid enough. tomorrow on first business, as the latest reform legislation takes shape...a look at spending health care dollars more efficiently. is been nearly impossible for the bears to put to read days together in a role in september that's been the case