http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/scott-m1.1.1.html
Your Doctor Serves The State, Not You
by Michael Scott, MD
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While I agree that physicians commonly order tests and perform procedures that are medically unnecessary, this fact is due to two main reasons the author completely fails to mention: first, the tort system, which terrorizes doctors in their practices on a daily basis, and second, that patients have minimal if any financial stake in their care. As a consequence, they demand everything in excess, and are often angry when we suggest a desired test or treatment is not indicated, no matter how much time we spend trying to educate them. When people don’t pay for something with their own money, they hardly care about costs. They just milk others for all they’re worth, because after all, that’s what they perceive everybody else is doing to them, too.
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Clearly, the current insurance system is broken. And, isn’t going to get fixed anytime soon.
We clearly have to get the lawyers out of suing the doctors for everything that goes wrong. They are docs ; not gods.
We clearly have to return to the days of yesteryear, when insurance was insurance. Car insurance doesn’t insure oil changes. And, patients have to pay a percentage of the true cost; not a “co-pay”!
We have to make health care insurance like auto or life; disconnected from employment.
Finally, we have to get the gooferment OUT of health, health care, and health care insurance completely. They can’t do anything right. It’s in their nature. (I still haven’t heard of then doing ANYTHING effectively. Never mind efficiently!)
Argh!
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