The Patient-Doctor Relationship Is the Cure
Today, millions of dollars are spent on unnecessary tests and incorrect treatments. The high cost of technology has caused an economic squeeze in healthcare that has already led to rationing of medical services.
The US healthcare system can little afford to continue its wasteful and ineffective practices.
Time to Care: Personal Medicine in the Age of Technology, proposes that the patient-doctor relationship be brought back to the center of the healthcare system. This will humanize treatment and help to reduce unnecessary spending, leading to a happier and healthier society.
Rationing in the Health Care Reform Bill
(the latest from the Blog page)
Most of the attention directed to the Affordable Health Care for America Act is concentrated on the provisions for the extension of health insurance coverage to a greater proportion of the population. Those provisions that reduce Medicare coverage for seniors are interpreted as “rationing” and pointed to with horror. The other significant aspects of rationing addressed in the bill are largely ignored.
Among these is the provision that health care benefits will be chosen by a Health Care Commissioner and by a government committee. This will include benefit levels for private plans. How can this be done in order to be just and equitable and not based on cost savings alone?… Read the rest of this blog entry
