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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (1793)	8/2/2007 1:15:31 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

By focusing on the example, you are sidestepping the issue. If you are discovered to have high blood pressure, your doctor can simply prescribe a pill or suggest lifestyle changes or both. Right now it takes a minute or two to make that decision and transmit it to you. If the two of you got into a discussion of the costs of various lifestyle changes vs taking a pill and the plusses and minuses of this pill vs that pill, the discussion could take an hour plus the doctor would have to have handy the costs of each. The question is the cost effectiveness of that use of the doctor's time and the opportunity cost. I don't know the answer. I'm just suggesting that there are a lot of hidden costs in having patients and doctors discuss cost implications and trade-offs.