Re:Why There’s a Severe Shortage of Cancer Drugs
by candiodari on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @07:24AM
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For the love of God, don't do this. This will mean MBA's do 2 things:
1) on the medical provider end, find every possible excuse to charge 1% more and pay it out to themselves, not using it for patient care
2) on the insurance/government end, find every possible way to charge 1% less, no matter the cost
So yes "let science decide" means to let doctors decide what care to provide (meaning you'd need a difficult admissions test for this class of people). Yes, they will cheat, which will benefit themselves, but also patients. And there's a limit, because doctors are fundamentally limited. And then you just eat the cost, and have a board (IMPORTANT: of doctors) weed out the worst abusers on a regular basis. And yes, if a doctor says "spend X on this patient", then we spend X on that patient. End of discussion.
And yes, this is probably "mercantilist" instead of capitalist, and provides a fundamentally unfair advantage in the economy to people who manage to get the degree of medical doctor. In trade, you get good health care.
1) on the medical provider end, find every possible excuse to charge 1% more and pay it out to themselves, not using it for patient care
2) on the insurance/government end, find every possible way to charge 1% less, no matter the cost
So yes "let science decide" means to let doctors decide what care to provide (meaning you'd need a difficult admissions test for this class of people). Yes, they will cheat, which will benefit themselves, but also patients. And there's a limit, because doctors are fundamentally limited. And then you just eat the cost, and have a board (IMPORTANT: of doctors) weed out the worst abusers on a regular basis. And yes, if a doctor says "spend X on this patient", then we spend X on that patient. End of discussion.
And yes, this is probably "mercantilist" instead of capitalist, and provides a fundamentally unfair advantage in the economy to people who manage to get the degree of medical doctor. In trade, you get good health care.