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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (7925)	7/31/2009 6:58:05 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 42652

Doubt it, but would listen if you know of examples. My memory isn't very specific for things I read but for which I have no need to retain. But I recall reading recently that those who get stents implanted actually fare worse than those who don't yet stents are common practice. Also surgery to repair the meniscus has been shown to not improve outcomes. I have a damaged meniscus so I remember that one. (The doctor I saw for it asked if I wanted surgery. I told him I had no basis for making that judgment. He acted like it was entirely optional and my call.) And you mentioned caesareans. So I'm sure there are plenty of procedures in that category. There are also drug treatments that don't improve outcomes. Everybody and his dog is now taking expensive drugs to lower LDL even thought the data show that more people with lower LDL have cardiac events than people with high LDL. My point is that there appear to be lots of opportunities to cut back on medical costs by studying outcomes and changing protocols accordingly. A politician saying he wants to eliminate unnecessary medical expenditures is far more likely to have caesareans in mind than to have visions of killing off costly Parkinson's patients.

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