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by WettowelReactor 4287 days ago
Without the context of total healthcare spend in America focusing on hospital administration costs is like rating charities based on their overhead.

Lower does not equal better, administration and management are necessary parts of such a complex system and reducing admin overhead could increase overall costs. To put it in perspective we spend about 17% of our economy on healthcare so the actual overhead costs for healthcare is closer to 8.5% which seems pretty reasonable.