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Originally Posted by Regorium
I'm not quite sure what you're arguing here. Like are you saying that the national average of 4.5% administrative cost means that their physicians and nurses are more efficient? And that the OECD average is 15% while we're at 3% since we make our doctors do the admin work?
It'd follow then, that if you have more administrative staff to take care of administrative tasks, then the front line staff like physicians and nurses can spend more time taking care of patients.
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No, I'm saying that reporting on administrative costs as you've quoted is voluntary and an unreliable statistics. Doctors doing administrative work often aren't counted in the administrative numbers at all.
When we use OECD methods of accounting for administrative costs withing the system, Canada's numbers are much higher, and WAY above the OECD average.
Which would help explain why our extremely expensive health care system has such poor outcomes for the population.