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eridani

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2. This is the first reason why treating health care as a commodity jacks up costs

Reply to lunasun (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 22, 2014, 09:36 PM

Aug 2014

If you have money, there's strong motivation to sell as much of it as possible, whether needed or not. The second reason is that if you don't have money, little problems grow into big problems before you can get treatment, and that is also very expensive. We lose both ways.

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Insurance companies go for profitable tests, but not for more doctor time spent with patients [View all] eridani Aug 2014 OP

Doctors who perform tests only when justified lose out sometimes even with the patients too lunasun Aug 2014 #1

This is the first reason why treating health care as a commodity jacks up costs eridani Aug 2014 #2