To: FairOpinion
I'm in favor of universal health coverage via the free market.
Remove legal restrictions from nurses and PAs opening their own clinics.
That'll fix the problem pretty quickly.
What you lose in brain power from the more academically inclined doc, you might just make up in the dedication and altruism of "called," experienced health pros.
Flood the market with alternatives and the price will drop like a rock....supply and demand.
4 posted on
09/08/2006 8:04:27 PM PDT by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
To: xzins
An excellent observation. One that goes to the heart of the problem in the US system: Dynastic Professional Absolutionism.
The dynasty of the MD degree has to be relinquished if our society hopes to offer affordable medical care, appropriate to means, across the breath of its economic classes. The free market can enhance this access if the legal stranglehold of the profession's top echelons, are eased.
Out patient, discount pharmacies, managed by licensed pharmacists, at a profit, inside private hospitals is an example of a free market solution coexisting peacefully with the status quo.
To: xzins
By the time the nurses and PAs buy their own malpractice insurance, they'll be just as expensive to use as the MDs.
I say let the people "prescribe" their own drugs and be done with a lot of this crap!
15 posted on
09/08/2006 8:45:32 PM PDT by
308MBR
(I'll be back for YOU, Jack, and I'll let the MACHINE speak! That's right. That's right.....)
To: xzins
I don't know why people think that Physicians are the major reason heath care cost are rising. Actually Physicians salaries are about half what they were 20-30 years ago.
The majority of the health care cost is spent on technology and hospital overhead. Technologies such as MRI, lab tests, minimally invasive surgery, and the latest and greatest pharmaceuticals are very expensive. Don't forget the administrators, stockholders and lawyers what their share.
Putting PAs and nurses in charge of your care may reduce your costs but increase mistakes,which will make the lawyers very happy. The care PA and nurses provide is good when supervised by a physician but is unsafe otherwise.
To: xzins
Remove legal restrictions from nurses and PAs opening their own clinics. Dittos, dittos, and more dittos.
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