Wow

... uh, five times more and, um, on administrative costs.

So my piece is kind of looking at, well, why is that? Uh, why do we spend so much? And it, it's about 30% of our overall spending on healthcare, and, um, about half of that is, um, insurance companies administration, and the other half is providers, like hospitals and other providers.

So a lot of it is just that, you know, there's a bunch of administrators, uh, on the insurance side, a bunch on the, uh, provider side that are kind of debating each other, um, negotiating with each other about what any given service should, should cost at any given time [laughs] and place.

So y- you know, the, um, and kind of the image I use for it is just, like, imagining you're at a restaurant and it works that way, where everybody has different, um, insurance cards, food insurance cards, and you go in and order a steak dinner.

And one person at the table, they have one price for it based on the negotiated rate, and, uh, somebody else has a different price.

And then also what's included in it might, might be different.

Sure

I mean, you've got little kids, you know, can you picture not knowing where they are in the middle of the night, you know, 10 years from now?

Well, I think part of it is just opportunity too.

I mean, back in our day where we could call one person and say, or one person at a time, say meet over there and you could get a big gathering of teenagers, but it could only probably grow so big.

Now they have these apps where, you know, within a minute, everybody sees, It's like a perfect storm for organizing rowdy youth.

They can post, oh, we're all at Briar Creek, 3,000 people, but we're heading to Glenwood South, and then 5,000 more come.

So now they have 8,000.

That just wasn't possible.

Are those concerns or do you think this is something we may see either overridden and corrected later in another bill?