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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (8143)8/11/2009 2:46:25 PM
From: Lane32 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Yet we still have what you call defensive medicine... and what others call over testing to make the most of an asset (an insured patient).

Defensive medicine and milking an asset are two different things. If effective tort reform has occurred, there should be much less defensive medicine because one of the key needs for defense has been removed. But medical practitioners still have to defend themselves against loss of reputation, license, and customers so there will always be a certain amount of it. The reform plan encourages defensive medicine in its own way because of the oversight to be sure that practitioners meet the national standards, some of which will be unnecessary.

Milking an asset is largely mercenary. There will always be a certain amount of that, too, because there will always be greedy people. Also, because medical equipment is expensive and requires lots of uses to cover the cost.
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