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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (7927)7/31/2009 7:27:01 AM
From: Brumar891 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
How can bureaucrats enforcing legislation determine which medical treatments are unnecessary and which aren't - which caesarans are unnecessary, for example? How could anyone tell except the doctor in question?

Many unnecessary medical treatments are likely due to defensive medicine driven by fear of lawsuits. Yet the legislaion does nothing on tort reform and with the clout of trial lawyers, we know it won't. So a logical conclusion would be that even if the government wants to eliminate unnecessary treatments it won't be able to unless it chooses to go the draconian route and simply ban certain things entirely for certain classes of patients.
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