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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: skinowski who wrote (6870)6/3/2009 3:17:20 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
but medical care is easier to figure out

Sometimes but not always. Some treatments get done for years before we find out there is likely no net benefit.

In individual cases you often can't tell if an specific expense will be wasted before you actually pay it. For example observing someone who had a head injury and/or giving him an MRI or other test (which also cost) might in some cases find out something important, might also turn up nothing and turn out to be unnecessary and thus in a sense wasteful.

Moving away from the individual if precautionary treatments often make sense than I wouldn't call them wasteful, but its not always easy to determine which treatments make sense and which do not, and if we eventually get a firm handle on many of the current uncertainties, new uncertainties, involving new treatments, will have arrived in the meantime.
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