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Kevin has an excellent post on costs. He refers to a NEJM article which echoes many of my rants about costs. The root of the problem
Read his post and the NEJM article. To summarize, our advances in providing high quality health care will continue to increase health care costs. Until we modify our thinking and desires to really adapt cost-effectiveness, we will have consistent, above inflation, increases. We can do better, but I doubt that we will. The process would take a sea change in how patients, physicians and lawyers regard medical care.
Why do we all (Kevin, DB, Kerry, Bush, NEJM, etc) insist on talking about medical costs driving insurance premiums and never point to the possibility of insurance company greed driving medical costs? Do we really think they are so innocent? Read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/18/business/18insure.html
QUOTE:
“The Marsh executive asked the insurance company in an e-mail message to send someone to a meeting to pretend to make a bid for an insurance policy being sought by a customer – even though Marsh had already decided to steer the business to another insurer that agreed to pay a kickback to Marsh.”
[Not a health insurance deal but still - same greedy industry]
2 Responses to Increasing health care costs
Machi
October 18th, 2004 at 8:32 am
Why do we all (Kevin, DB, Kerry, Bush, NEJM, etc) insist on talking about medical costs driving insurance premiums and never point to the possibility of insurance company greed driving medical costs? Do we really think they are so innocent? Read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/18/business/18insure.html
QUOTE:
“The Marsh executive asked the insurance company in an e-mail message to send someone to a meeting to pretend to make a bid for an insurance policy being sought by a customer – even though Marsh had already decided to steer the business to another insurer that agreed to pay a kickback to Marsh.”
[Not a health insurance deal but still - same greedy industry]
Machi
phil morris
October 26th, 2004 at 3:29 pm
DB come to Canada.