On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Chris Gehlker <[email protected]> wrote: > LuKreme is exactly > right. Doctors in the US make an incredible amount of money writing > routine prescriptions. It is well documented that for things like > routine hypertension medication doctors who bill by the visit don't > tend to write prescriptions for longer than a month while doctors on > salary tend to write the same prescriptions for three months.
which only supports the argument that the US system is the <qoute source="Chuck">disaster</quote> and that other countries with national, or centralized systems are far better. Its simply not possible to raise money in this way in the UK, or German system. Neither the NHS in the UK, nor any German Health Insurance company, be it public, or private will reimburse a doctor for this kind of trickery. In addition to that, a practionier gets precisely zero money for writing a prescription per se. Reimbursement is bound to a consultation, or treatment. Levels of reimbursement and normal frequencies of consultations (the latter is at least the case in Germany) are fixed. How fucked up an idea is it to give doctors money for writing prescriptions. You might as well just let the drug and medical device companies pay their salaries directly on a premium basis. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
