Re:India Aims for the World's Biggest Health Care Overhaul
by dv_dt on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:42PM
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Most first world nations have government bodies with medical experts setting maximum costs for drugs and procedures. Their costs for healthcare are much lower than the US.
The idea that "The solution is to make the consumer participate in driving costs down." has been demonstrated in none of those nations for healthcare.
As a well-educated white collar worker in a non-medical field, if I broke a bone and a doctor gave me three different options and costs for setting that bone, I would really have no basis for being able to choose the right option for the best long-term cost/quality of health.
This idea is like asking regular computer users to determine what software stack they should buy to use in their cloud computing provider.
The idea that "The solution is to make the consumer participate in driving costs down." has been demonstrated in none of those nations for healthcare.
As a well-educated white collar worker in a non-medical field, if I broke a bone and a doctor gave me three different options and costs for setting that bone, I would really have no basis for being able to choose the right option for the best long-term cost/quality of health.
This idea is like asking regular computer users to determine what software stack they should buy to use in their cloud computing provider.