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I don't understand some of you people who trust your physician's opinion but totally disregard what they are telling you!
In their words NOT MINE!!!
For some that STILL think this is about rising malpractice premiums
IT IS NOT! That cost is minimal less the 1% and NOT the issue!
Some idiots here quote the CBO which while correct about the percentage gave some the impression that was the issue. IT IS NOT!
Just read what the EXPERTS say.
The Hidden Costs of Healthcare
10:51 pm May 18, 2011,
Wayne Oliver - vice president, Center for Health Transformation
"But there is a hidden cost of healthcare that no one wants to talk about and it’s one you’re going to start hearing more about: defensive medicine.
In healthcare, there can be “side effects” of medical procedures or prescription drugs. And, there is a rather significant “side effect” from the failure to do something about nuisance lawsuits filed against physicians. That side effect is called “defensive medicine.”
So we are clear, when physicians practice “defensive medicine,” they usually order unnecessary tests or procedures just in case they get sued.
According to a 2010 survey of physicians by Gallup for Alpharetta-based Jackson Healthcare, one of every four dollars spent in health care goes to defensive medicine."
http://www.jacksonhealthcare.com/media-room/press-releases/cht-jh-release.aspx
NOTE: [$2.5 trillion in 2010 total health care expenditures or $600 billion equals " one of every four dollars" ]
"The practice of defensive medicine is incredibly widespread and pervasive. Nearly every physician surveyed by Gallup indicated that he or she had ordered unnecessary tests or procedures, admitted patients to hospitals or other costly settings or prescribed unneeded prescription medications in the last year.
Defensive medicine is not only inconvenient as we are herded from one unnecessary test to the next, it is also very costly.
And who picks up the tab for defensive medicine? We all do.
How many times have we been given an unnecessary x-ray or CT scan for a routine illness or accident? A lot. How many times have we been referred to a “specialist” for “further evaluation?” Too many.
But rarely do we as patients ever question it. Well, to be candid, the physicians who provide care and treat our illness or disease do it over and over again to protect themselves from lawsuits. More specifically, physicians do their best to avoid lawsuits by subjecting all of us — their patients — to excessive and unnecessary tests and procedures.
When doctors are protected from frivolous lawsuits, they will stop ordering unnecessary tests, exams, drugs and procedures.
In turn, patients, doctors, hospitals, providers and taxpayers will save billions of dollars in a healthcare system that never seems to stop escalating in cost.
The Hidden Costs of Healthcare | HealthFlock
In their words NOT MINE!!!
For some that STILL think this is about rising malpractice premiums
IT IS NOT! That cost is minimal less the 1% and NOT the issue!
Some idiots here quote the CBO which while correct about the percentage gave some the impression that was the issue. IT IS NOT!
Just read what the EXPERTS say.
The Hidden Costs of Healthcare
10:51 pm May 18, 2011,
Wayne Oliver - vice president, Center for Health Transformation
"But there is a hidden cost of healthcare that no one wants to talk about and it’s one you’re going to start hearing more about: defensive medicine.
In healthcare, there can be “side effects” of medical procedures or prescription drugs. And, there is a rather significant “side effect” from the failure to do something about nuisance lawsuits filed against physicians. That side effect is called “defensive medicine.”
So we are clear, when physicians practice “defensive medicine,” they usually order unnecessary tests or procedures just in case they get sued.
According to a 2010 survey of physicians by Gallup for Alpharetta-based Jackson Healthcare, one of every four dollars spent in health care goes to defensive medicine."
http://www.jacksonhealthcare.com/media-room/press-releases/cht-jh-release.aspx
NOTE: [$2.5 trillion in 2010 total health care expenditures or $600 billion equals " one of every four dollars" ]
"The practice of defensive medicine is incredibly widespread and pervasive. Nearly every physician surveyed by Gallup indicated that he or she had ordered unnecessary tests or procedures, admitted patients to hospitals or other costly settings or prescribed unneeded prescription medications in the last year.
Defensive medicine is not only inconvenient as we are herded from one unnecessary test to the next, it is also very costly.
And who picks up the tab for defensive medicine? We all do.
How many times have we been given an unnecessary x-ray or CT scan for a routine illness or accident? A lot. How many times have we been referred to a “specialist” for “further evaluation?” Too many.
But rarely do we as patients ever question it. Well, to be candid, the physicians who provide care and treat our illness or disease do it over and over again to protect themselves from lawsuits. More specifically, physicians do their best to avoid lawsuits by subjecting all of us — their patients — to excessive and unnecessary tests and procedures.
When doctors are protected from frivolous lawsuits, they will stop ordering unnecessary tests, exams, drugs and procedures.
In turn, patients, doctors, hospitals, providers and taxpayers will save billions of dollars in a healthcare system that never seems to stop escalating in cost.
The Hidden Costs of Healthcare | HealthFlock
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