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Option 1 although good it probably won't fly well. The first step to cleaning up the existing mess it to stop rewarding doctors based on the number procedure th
by sarvesh 17y ago
Option 1 although good it probably won't fly well. The first step to cleaning up the existing mess it to stop rewarding doctors based on the number procedure they apply on a patient to cure them in medicare. That is probably the most insane healthcare practice and I don't think it is done anywhere else in the world.
Once the doctors realize that these current practices are not sustainable they probably will come out with some novel ideas like this one http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4585.html http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4585.html.
It doesn't really make sense to have only for profit health insurance companies, look the executive salaries (http://www.prwatch.org/node/8425#comment-4517 http://www.prwatch.org/node/8425#comment-4517). With the amount of money the US government is spending on healthcare it would make a lot of sense for us to have a single-payer system.
- russell 17y agoYesterday, I had a discussion with my doctor on this very topic. Her office visits take an hour not fifteen minutes. If you need more time than that, she takes it. She does not participate in any insurance plans because they pay $75 or less for a visit. I think sarvesh has the wrong cause for assembly line medicine. It's not that doctors are doing it to enrich themselves, but that insurance companies are forcing them to do it with unreasonably low payments. In another reply I objected to recruiting third world doctors because their training was not up to US standards, but I also object because I don't think we should deprive those countries of their services so we could pay them like janitors here.