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To: Innovative
You are being ridiculous and you know it.

Not at all.

"High cholesterol" is fairly common, and cholesterol tests are inexpensive.

Other conditions are less common, and testing is more expensive.

What's your rule on "Who gets screened for what?"?

35 posted on 02/17/2012 1:50:23 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

People get tested when they show certain symptoms and doctors are trying to find what is causing them.

You are the only one who is talking about “screening”, i.e. testing everyone for everything. Nobody is advocating that.

Doctors should be allowed to practice medicine and use their best judgment, discussing it with their patients, and deciding what test, procedures, etc. to perform.

Are you in favor of some panel telling the doctors what tests they are allowed to perform?

Looks like you seem to agree with this statement in the article that “policy advisors “ should decide what tests doctors can order, not the doctors:

“Health economists and other policy advisers question whether doctors can be trusted to make the right calls.”

Why even have doctors? Let’s just have some “administrators” determine what test and treatments people can have.


36 posted on 02/17/2012 2:02:28 PM PST by Innovative (Weakness is provocative.)
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