The HMO in Your Future

Can I get some credentials here please. Actually you arrogant mush heads make my point. People who have zero medical credentials will be applying and rewarding the practices that THEY approve of. They are stepping between the Doctor and the Patient. That is a practice that will produce a poor outcome at the expense of good patient care. Medical care should be practiced with the individual needs of each unique patient. None one-size fits all debacle.

Yeah, here are my credentials: I've got a BRAIN. I've also got atrial fibrillation, so I take blood thinners and am intimately familiar with their non toxicity and benefits. And, newsflash, antibiotics prevent infection. But more to the point, Gayle, are you saying you don't think these practices should carry benefits to providers who adhere to them because they're harmful? And let's look at the flip side: Suppose a doctor or hospital DOESN'T administer antibiotics as a cost-savings measure, being beholden only to the bottom line only. Shouldn't there be incentives to do the right thing? Remember, these are the two examples Goodman chose to use as his example. That's the best he could do.

This argument is idiotic.

Trouble is your "brain" is stuck up your A@@.

5Mentarios: Could you have gone farther out of your way to miss my point? I am saying that the Doctor should treat each patient individually. If the treatment is ineffective, the Doctor is responsible for poor results; that will lead to further treatment at more cost. There is NO incentive for Doctor to look at the bottom line first and the patient second. It will harm all involved. Besides that, the Board that makes the approvals is just more overhead on the over-burdened system with little or no benefits to gain. "Cost effectiveness" is not on the radar screen here.

I am already getting the phone calls---my friend had someone who wanted to come to her house to give her an exam.We are headed down a very dangerous path --but we should have been paying into the current system a long time ago.