| senseinobaka said: 1)I'm not addressing. I know you understand how much education goes into becoming a doctor and that each state has liscense programs. Go back and make your point coherent. 2)You like assuming the ignorance of the masses, yet you seem to trust your life anf future to the same masses. Interesting position. Like I said information is easily available. And when I say prices should be advertised, I mean with full disclosure. So the instituiton will have to show their mortality rate, success rate, and complications rate compared to the national/regional average. That should help in making an informed decision. |
Doctors require lots of education to make informed decisions, something that the general public is not capable of. Yes, I am stating the the masses are ignorant of medical treatment. Likewise, doctors are ignorant of building houses. So let doctors work on your heart and construction workers work on your house.
As I clearly laid out in point 1 and above, the general cannot make informed decisions about what type of treatment they want or where they should go, that is why they have doctors refer them to a specialist. When you go to your general physician and he refers you to a specialist at a certain hospital, he is able to make that decision because he is a doctor. You are not a doctor, you cannot make that decision.
Kasz:
Thats an incorrect assumption. Not only is that not true (for isntance it assumes all entities have the same owner), but country's with less population have higher maintanance costs for boards and comittees. In the United States, 100 people a the AMA decide that a drug is okay for the use. In Great Britian you also need 100 people to make the same decision. The United States has more people so the costs per capita are down.
This phenomenom is referred to as economics of scale, an important economic principle.
