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adieu

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16. Food is almost always for-profit

Reply to silverweb (Reply #12)

Fri Jun 14, 2013, 06:00 PM

Jun 2013

and I have no problem with that. The point is that we can make intelligent choices on the options. You can pick apples or oranges for your fruit. You can buy your rice or barley for your grain. You can eat pork or beef or chicken.

But in health care, few of us know enough to make an intelligent choice. If the doctor says, "you need to get this test and then we're going to do that procedure," are you going to second-guess him? Are you going to wait around for a second opinion? How is the second opinion a better value than the first?

We trade off no second guessing for receiving the best decision. Doctors and others in the health industry know they have a lock on revenue. They don't need to pad it with false or inaccurate decisions.

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