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

To: 10K a day who wrote (5539)	5/4/2008 11:07:45 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Too much money floating around is a problem. The incentives are definitely screwed up. I'd rather address that problem than risk throwing the baby out with the bath water. I'm brand new to Medicare and I'm watching carefully how it pays. I used it for the first time last week. My dentist sent me to an ENT for a suspected salivary gland stone. The ENT sent me for an ultrasound. He told me that an ultrasound wouldn't show the stone but it was less invasive than a CAT scan. The radiologist who read the ultrasound told me that, of course, the ultrasound didn't show a stone and is recommending a CAT scan to the ENT. So I guess Medicare will be paying for both. I don't see anything in what Clinton proposes that would change that. If anything, she would universalize that.