I'm told by doctors on other lists that it's illegal for the doc to
make money on tests.
On Sep 24, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Ross Kuhns wrote:
I also have a friend, he's an ER doc in SE Ohio. He loves it when
the police bring in people they've arrested or accidentally beat up
or whatever else goes on is rural Ohio.
He runs every test and workup on them he can order. Not because
they're needed, and he freely admits that they're not, but because
he makes money off of each test. He makes more than my salary was
for many years off that one. I imagine the cost to the system is
bearing the larger part of that.
The system is not working.
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Subject: Re: ABC News' John Stossel Blows Lid off ObamaCare
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:56:54 -0500
Yeah, my cardiologist is a Canadian. He's down here because he
hated being told to do 1/2 of what he wanted to do and not being
able to run tests to determine problems. He says the health care
here is far superior to Canada.
In Canada there's zero talk of abandoning universal public coverage
for basic medical. We argue about how much more public money should
be dumped into health care, but nobody would dream of suggesting we
make the system more like the US. We do have private clinics and
people debate how far we should go to support that system. And
yeah, rarely you have to wait a long time for a procedure depending
on the situation. If you're rich, you can always pay for a private
procedure, and if you're poor, the government will often send you to
the private clinic and cover your costs, including travel in many
cases. For the vast majority of problems, you'll get a doctor soon
enough.
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