It’s amazing how much waste is built into the process.
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Ask the lawyers why that is. If a doc doesn’t order a certain test, and it ends up that test SHOULD have been ordered to rule out a specific disorder, the doc is going to get sued.
Doctors can’t win in our litigious society.
Ask the lawyers why that is. If a doc doesn’t order a certain test..
It's certain that this is a major cost factor, and it also increases cost due to high liability insurance.
We know ways to dramatically reduce insurance/healthcare costs: Tort reform, free market solutions: removing state insurance regulations to require coverage buyer doesn't need; allowing competition across state lines; and going to something like a premium support system in the case of medicare.
It's so frustrating to watch government head in the exact wrong way.