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Health care taking financial toll, task force told

problem is very simple. Bottom line = nobody wants to PAY.

My son owns his own contracting business - building homes for Ivory Homes. Earlier this spring, one of his employees fell off a roof. The worker was taken to the closest hospital which did not want to treat him because he was covered on work-comnp, and as it turned out also an illegal worker. This west side hospital called in life flight for a seven thousand dollar helicopter ride to the U OF U Hospital. All they did there was observe the worker for 24 hours. My boy, acting as a concerned boss, talked with the MD's at the U. His question was, Why lifeflight?. The U MD.s told him that it was "Overkill", that an ambulance or even my boy could have taken the worker to the U just as safely. The system itself cost work comp a whole lot of money that was not needed. To bad we can not charge this unneeded expense back the the West side hospital that caused it. So now, we all pay more into work comp.

Why are healthcare costs skyrocketing while insurance companies continue to make millions? Have you ever heard of a hospital closing? It certainly has happened! Have you ever heard of a health insurance company closing? Nope. Someone is making money and it isn't the hospitals, doctors or nurses!