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December 21st, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Women doctors working part time does not bode well for the future supply of primary care.
December 21st, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Interestingly, the only innovative (and presumably efficient) method of dealing with disabilities is the Cash and Counsel (or is it Counseling?) program in Medicaid that has been described before at this blog.
Home bound disabled patients manage their own budget, hire and fire the vendors and providers who service them and are empowered consumers in the marketplace. Satisfaction is close to 100% and by every measure the program has been extremely successful.
Imagine that. A health market that actually works. And it is here on earth, not on the distant planet Uwe Reinhardt describes in his comments to the previous post.
December 22nd, 2009 at 9:02 am
Tom, I believe they can ignore the PCT codes as well. So providers are free to repackage and reprice their services. Patients are free to pay market prices rather than the government’s administered prices. That means buyers and sellers can deal with each other like normal people!
Imagine that. No need for the PhD or MD degrees that Uwe Reinhardt thinks we all need in order to make intelligent decisions.
And by the way, Uwe is wrong about the current state of affairs as well. All the degrees in the world won’t allow you to make intelligent decisions in the current system.