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5. Put doctors on salaries. But then the problem reverses

Reply to True Earthling (Original post)

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 10:07 PM

Mar 2016

and doctors have an incentive to do as few treatments as possible.

Or pay by outcomes. But then doctors are incentivized to seek out only rich healthy patients (this is the same problem as teacher incentives based on test scores).

Specifically, I want to point out, single payer does not solve this problem; if anything it makes it worse because any attempt to reduce provider reimbursements gets attacked as "cutting Medicare".

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30% of all healthcare spending is waste...$750B a year..more than the military budget [View all] True Earthling Mar 2016 OP

Like the doctors that give antibiotics... scscholar Mar 2016 #1

I went to the emergency room when I broke my collar bone angstlessk Mar 2016 #2

You call it waste. moondust Mar 2016 #3

Slow down there a little bit. basselope Mar 2016 #4

Put doctors on salaries. But then the problem reverses Recursion Mar 2016 #5

Doesn't that depend on why they became doctors? basselope Mar 2016 #13

That same argument applies right now Recursion Mar 2016 #15

You'd have to read my post from earlier... basselope Mar 2016 #16

This has been known for years. HuckleB Mar 2016 #6

Nope, you can't blame this one on insurance. It's even worse with Medicare. Recursion Mar 2016 #7

Yes, I can. HuckleB Mar 2016 #8

Well, sure, you can, if you don't mind ignoring the actual problem Recursion Mar 2016 #9

That doesn't change the reality of private health care bureaucracy. HuckleB Mar 2016 #10

Because you aren't actually saying anything. There's nothing to "see" Recursion Mar 2016 #11

You keep pretending. HuckleB Mar 2016 #12

It's not. Private insurance overhead is about 2% of health care spending Recursion Mar 2016 #14

That's absolutely untrue. Overhead was 30% of insurance cost before Obamacare brought it to ~20% hedda_foil Mar 2016 #17

And? Recursion Mar 2016 #18