Universal healthcare bill fails to pass in California

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Medical Malpractice: Myths and Realities - True Cost of Healthcare

My new book The Great American Healthcare Scam: How Kickbacks, Collusion and Propaganda have Exploded Healthcare Costs in the United States Can now be purchased on Amazon. Here are the links: Paperback eBook Print Section Two major goals of this website are to provide some transparency to...

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I cannot get to my University databases anymore since I retired, but I believe it is truly a misconception Doctors spend a lot of time and effort practice to prevent lawsuits, mainly to profit. I will see if I can find the data for the differences in care for the same event with and without insurance or means to pay. If you have insurance that pays for it, you get more than you need if the Doc gets paid. If the doctor doesnt get paid, well you might just not really need that procedure. There is quite a bit of literature demonstrating this, I will see if I can find it on the internet.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Medical Malpractice: Myths and Realities - True Cost of Healthcare

My new book The Great American Healthcare Scam: How Kickbacks, Collusion and Propaganda have Exploded Healthcare Costs in the United States Can now be purchased on Amazon. Here are the links: Paperback eBook Print Section Two major goals of this website are to provide some transparency to...

truecostofhealthcare.org

I cannot get to my University databases anymore since I retired, but I believe it is truly a misconception Doctors spend a lot of time and effort practice to prevent lawsuits, mainly to profit. I will see if I can find the data for the differences in care for the same event with and without insurance or means to pay. If you have insurance that pays for it, you get more than you need if the Doc gets paid. If the doctor doesnt get paid, well you might just not really need that procedure. There is quite a bit of literature demonstrating this, I will see if I can find it on the internet.

It's not about the doctors getting paid. After all, they don't pay for these tests up front for you. They are done by the hospital or clinics. The doctors concern is avoiding lawsuits where they can be accused of wrongdoing by not having those tests done.

Defensive Medicine Adds $45 Billion to the Cost of Healthcare

One of the biggest issues during the health care reform debate was the practice of so called “defensive medicine,” which the Wall Street Journal recently defined as “doctors ordering tests or procedures (or avoiding others) primarily because they’re

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The point I'm making is that our high cost for care is not because of insurance companies. If you look around, insurance companies make no more profit than they do selling auto, home or renters insurance. The insurance companies simply pay the bills. The lower the bills, the less they have to pay and the lower premium they can charge. And those costs are what needs our attention first before we figure out a better paying system where everybody can get quality medical care.