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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (1779)8/2/2007 10:58:13 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Here's a question for you, something I've been wondering about. What would it cost if patients really shopped prices as the norm? I'm thinking not about the savings that might be achieved by cheaper or fewer procedures. I'm thinking about the overhead. Given that the costs of physician time is one of the larger health care costs and efforts have been made to minimize that, what would happen if a ten minute consultation turned into a thirty minute consultation when questions about various costs and cost/effectiveness ratios were introduced? The reason I asked is that I just can't imagine having that discussion with a doctor. It's hard enough to decide between different proposed approaches without the doctor needing to be aware of the costs of each and the consultation taking the time to weigh them.
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