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> Similarly, due to different funding models, private healthcare can give drugs/perform procedures which don’t have a good cost/benefit analysis but the custom
by DanBC 4y ago
> Similarly, due to different funding models, private healthcare can give drugs/perform procedures which don’t have a good cost/benefit analysis but the customer doesn’t mind paying for.
Private healthcare causing harm by over-testing, over-diagnosing, and over-treating is not an advantage.
- Engineering-MD 4y agoWe can completely agree about the dangers of overtesting/diagnosing/testing (which occurs in all health settings), but it’s disingenuous to say that all private health care does. There are plenty of treatments and investigations that are too expensive so NHS doesn’t fund, or wants a trial of a objectively worse but cheaper alternative first to see if works because it’s cheaper and for no other reason. In those cases, they person harmed is the customers wallet, and that is their choice. I’m pro free treatment, but having private healthcare alongside a strong NHS is to my mind a benefit. I would be against private healthcare in situations where they influence the NHS, or NHS trust outsource whole departments to private (which is happening), but private healthcare isn’t always evil.