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"most of the healthcare reform goes to the practitioners who practice useless surgeries and interventions on a vulnerable population of elderly" A lot of docto
by jamiequint 17y ago
"most of the healthcare reform goes to the practitioners who practice useless surgeries and interventions on a vulnerable population of elderly"
A lot of doctors don't want anything to do with medicare patients because they are often breakeven at best and in many cases a net loss. They are many times required to care for these patients in order to maintain hospital accreditation programs that allow them to look attractive to patients with insurance (where the hospital actually makes some profit).
It is good to pay attention to healthcare availability, but no sustainable solution can ignore the cost side. Excess litigation has played a significant role in the massive overinflation of healthcare costs. Flooding hospitals with patients with government insurance - likely to be net-negative income for hospitals - is going to destroy the healthcare system faster than it fixes it.