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Doctors and patients should dictate health care, not a third party. Insurance obviously creates misaligned demand at least as consumer and doctor's demand is i

• jghn 2y ago
  > Doctors and patients should dictate health care, not a third party. Sort of. As long as other people are helping to shoulder the bill: via US style health insurance, single payer, universal health care, etc then there needs to be a cost/benefit consideration based on population scale data. Example: There's a treatment for Condition X where the data show a 0.001% chance of benefit and costs $50 million dollars to provide. It'd be absurd to suggest that a single patient & their doctor should be making that choice, unless the patient is the one footing the entire bill. So then the trick is to determine where to draw the cost/benefit threshold and then to determine which treatments generally do vs do not meet those thresholds.