On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:01 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As somebody with many recent adventures with the health care
> system, my bias is for them to do more rather than less.  I could be
> wrong, or just paranoid, but stuff that isn't strictly necessary (or
> first best) seems less dangerous than foregoing something that
> is necessary, or best.


The other side of that argument is that, in a world of limited
resources, unnecessary treatments always diverts resources from areas
where they are more needed.

Of course in the real world it is very likely that the folks who are
getting unnecessary treatments come from a different social class from
those who get too little..
-raghu.

-- 
"Last night my friend drank 26 bottles of O'Douls... He is a non-alcoholic."
 - Mitch Hedberg
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