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What might really help all of the health care costs, is to deal with $3000+/bed/day, $6000+/room/day costs ($90,000 – $180,000 per month). If hospital stays did not have this cost, health care would really not be that expensive. Nursing homes (nice ones) manage to provide own room in the cost range of $3500 to $5000/month.
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There’s a reason why Nursing homes can charge less. Do you know the patients to nurse ratio in a nursing home vs a hospital? I can tell you it’s drastically different and that would be one of the major contributor to the price differences. You would be will to sacrifice the patient care to the level of a nursing home by increasing the patients to nurse ratio? Keep in mind that the type of patients in a hospital require much more care than those in a nursing home too.
