We will get healthcare reform. If Congress can’t destroy it first, the market will destroy healthcare for us. Something will happen.
I used to think doctors would be the ones to fix it, but I’m realizing we’re a big part of the problem. We’re human like everyone else. However, not all of us use our intellect for the greater good. Some of us are content to work hard to become good physicians, and use that skill base to help people and make an above average income. However, there are others who look for ways to make money. They’re smart, so they find ways. There are lots of ways to make money…lots of money…like a million dollars a year or more. Mohs surgeons (who perform microscopically controlled surgery) are a great example. The details of what they do are a bit complicated, but overall, they do skin surgeries in a way that achieves cosmetically improved results, but costs volumes more than the procedure would cost if done differently. Mohs surgeons can make like a million dollars a year. Patients want improved cosmetic results; they get Mohs; insurance companies pay for it; premiums go up. That’ only one example.
Doctors need to be the ones controlling healthcare, but doctors are human. Damned being human.
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Raging Kitty