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To: grusum who wrote (212547)	7/26/2009 1:26:40 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

>>Skeeter, private medicine is indeed about profit but you left something out.. profit brings competition and competition raises efficiency.<< how did that profit motive work for making loans and MBSes and CDOes more "efficient?" <g> i have to admit, they did blow the fabric of our economic universe to smitherenes with the utmost "efficiency." but, alas, that's not the kind fo efficiency we want. while true in many cases, the view that it always works in every case is too simple minded. in this particular case, we spend more than double than any other nation and are less healthy. that isn't my definition of "efficiency," unless "efficiency" is separating patients from their money. efficiency is getting information out about a diet that was correlated with an 83% reduction in the incidence of diabetes and mobilizing every doctor in the country to learn and teach this diet to all their "at risk" patients. it will never happen, precisely b/c the it doesn't maximize profits. that's profit induced inefficiency at its worst. ask you doctor to tell you about the diet that is correlated with an 83% reduction in diabetes and i'll bet he gives some shuck and jive and can't answer the question. making this study even more amazing, the most at risk people stuck to the diet most closely and they, the most at risk people, saw the 83% reduction compared to the least at risk people. to a large degree, we are killing ourselves. slowly. that's a recipe for inefficient, expensive (but highly profitable!) medical care.