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In defense of not-for-profit health care

Posted in politics by Administrator on the November 11th, 2009

Quotes from Money Drive Medicine
“..on average, those who receive more supply-driven care are no better off than similar patients who enjoy a certain degree of benign neglect.”
Dartmouth study-”..we believe that physicians, along with willing hospitals, are at the root of over treatment.”
“There’s a lot of money being made on things that don’t work well.”
..clinical trials are costly and not always practical. Moreover, ”
if you are making a ton of money being reimbursed by Medicare, the last thing you want to do is put your treatment to a test.” says Califf(Dr Califf, professor of medicine at Duke University)
“Clinical medicine is awash in novelty, but without the capacity to distinguish what truly works…THE EMPLOYER COMMUNITY, THE TAX-PAYING COMMUNITY and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services need to understand that THEIR COST PROBLEMS CAN BE TRACED TO A LARGE EXTENT, TO UNEVALUATED TECHNOLOGIES.”

This words make a good argument that for profit health care has run amok and we the people are receiving diminishing returns on the money spent on health care, both private and public.

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