akuma587 said:
The fact is that it is already happening and going to happen in the future. The main question is who is going to be in charge of doing it. I see something similar to this as the only "acceptable" solution.
And it is true that there is substantial evidence that one of the biggest drivers of cost in medicine in America is people seeking treatment and medicine that they don't actually need. People tend to think that if it is more expensive that they probably need it (which is pretty common in American culture). This is from the CBO. You can click the link to see a guy critique what they have said.
U.S. spends $700 billion on unnecessary medical tests
http://healthcare-economist.com/2008/11/07/us-spends-700-billion-on-unnecessary-medical-tests/
November 7, 2008 in Health Insurance, Public Policy
“Peter Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office, estimates that 5 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product-—$700 billion per year –goes to tests and procedures that do not actually improve health outcomes…The unreasonably high cost of health care in the United States is a deeply entrenched problem that must be attacked at its root.”
This quotation comes from a Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) report. There is little doubt that much of health care is unnecessary or at least is not worthwhile in the cost-benefit sense. However, how do we fix this problem? PPI has some suggestions which the Healthcare Economist will scrutinize.
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Couldn't this eaisly be fixed by making it so the checkup doctors can't be the surgeons nor could someone in the practice?
Or that combined with a law making doctors salaried? Seems easy enough. "Well johnson probably needs back surgery but I don't want to do it. Oh wait i don't have too anyway. I'll reccomend the surgery and give him teds number. I hate ted."
Your trying to take a sledgehammer to something that needs a scapel.
