Re: More crazy Harry Reid in action - Public Option not if but when, SS not going bro
You don't right now because government ensures competence. If you didn't have that assurance, you would comparison shop, even ahead of time for emergency situations.
No, you can't except for minor things. Serious things cannot be handled that way.
It happens all the time right now because the cost is too high.
No, we treat thema nd they don't pay. Happens daily.
Want to know why this is wrong? Imagine if everyone was a doctor. Then not everyone would have plenty of patients to be busy. My point? The market decides how many doctors there should be, and so we should follow the advice of the market. The huge salaries they command right now is indicative of the fact that there is a shortage of doctors. The fact that medical students need to do 80 hour a week internships shows that there is a huge shortage of doctors.
Again, you are going to unrealistic extremes. It would never be that high or anywhere near it. We'll never reach a satuation point. Medince requires enough learning and practice and money to naturally keep th number low enough to never satuate the market. And no, having worked in a teaching hospital, the 80 work week is not based on need, but tradition.
Yes, the specialization would command a higher salary because not everyone can acquire those skills. However, who are you to say that the number we have now is good? The number is capped, so we don't know how many would try to become doctors if that cap was relaxed. Wages would go down without that cap.
I'm all for relaxing the cap, and more in this bill is set up to encourage more GPs. But again, there will never be a satuation point.
Guess I should just take your word for it. :roll:
Why the silliness as I have suggested nothing of the kind. I've suggested that you look into it more.
I'm not doing your work. You show me the links.
I have never asked you to do my work, though you might do some of your own.
So what we have is a series of implausible claims, negative or insufficient evidence, and a clinical setting where self-deception is likely. This adds up to over a billion dollars of wasted health care dollars.
We have to confront the fact that this is what has and will happen in the absence of adequate regulation – the public will waste money on useless therapies, their attention and resourcesy may be diverted from more effective interventions, and some unscientific interventions may be directly harmful.
There is also no incentive for industry to spend time and money doing quality studies when they don’t have to. Sellers of copper bracelets were happy to do so for decades without studying their claims.
Further, most new health claims are going to turn out to be false. The lower the prior probability (by definition) the more likely the claims are to be false. So accross the board there is a great deal of risk and expense to products with untested or dubious health claims, and very little benefit.
Science-Based Medicine » Copper and Magnetic Bracelets for Arthritis
Why markets can’t cure healthcare - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
How many do you want?