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

To: Lane3 who wrote (7207)	6/26/2009 10:11:23 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

>> Cheaper treatment means less treatment: fewer tests, fewer surgeries, fewer drugs. This is a highly cynical statement. Okay, everyone can agree that fewer tests could be used if we had tort reform, but as it now stands, physicians simply MUST protect themselves. There are certainly surgeries where one professional might disagree with another. And lord knows there are questionable prescriptions written. But to suggest that physicians are doing surgeries and prescribing medications intentionally where they are not called for is, to me, the height of cynicism. I don't know of any surgeons who would recommend surgery just to line their pockets. I'm sure there are some out there, but I don't think the numbers are large. More likely, surgeries are used because when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. If you're a cardiac surgeon it isn't surprising a bypass seems like a good option. But are we ready to have a government board overseeing this process, telling the patient, "You can't have a bypass surgery because we think there is something better". I just don't think America realizes this is what they're proposing.