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Quality is only one of the measures patients use to select a doctors, and it would be fine to doubt patients can even gauge quality. I would tell you location
by conanbatt 8y ago
Quality is only one of the measures patients use to select a doctors, and it would be fine to doubt patients can even gauge quality.
I would tell you location beats quality every day.
- Gibbon1 8y agoFee like in these threads the people taking the other side of this conversation haven't had to deal with a serious health problem either for themselves or someone else. The whole shipping around bit basically does not work. What are you going to do pester doctors about hypothetical health issues? Change doctors, hospitals in the middle of treatment just to see if you get better treatment. Yeah lets try that a dozen times and then pick the 'best' yeah right. How you make a 'free market' work in a system with so many natural information asymmetries and frictions is beyond me.
- conanbatt 8y agoThe competition in the current market is not done at that level but at the insurance level. Its just that insurances are picked by employer, so again, no way to compete. The economics of the system are complex, but healthcare is far from being a "free market" as it is right now.