http://blog.docasap.com/2009/07/why-is-healthcare-so-expensive-in-us/ Company news and online health care insights Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:36:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://blog.docasap.com/2009/07/why-is-healthcare-so-expensive-in-us/comment-page-1/#comment-29 phil Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:35:04 +0000 http://blog.docasap.com/?p=178#comment-29 Left out the over abundance of specialty doctors and how most are paid by how many procedures they perform. If doctors wield the pen, why do they do it so differently from one place to another? Physicians pursue the maximum possible amount of testing and procedures! Video try to make it sound like its us the patents. lol wonder WHY? $$$ Physicians who see their practice primarily as a revenue stream. They instruct their secretary to have patients who call with follow-up questions schedule an appointment, because insurers don’t pay for phone calls, only office visits. They consider providing Botox injections for cash. They take a Doppler ultrasound course, buy a machine, and start doing their patients’ scans themselves, so that the insurance payments go to them rather than to the hospital. As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality!!! Left out the over abundance of specialty doctors and how most are paid by how many procedures they perform. If doctors wield the pen, why do they do it so differently from one place to another? Physicians pursue the maximum possible amount of testing and procedures! Video try to make it sound like its us the patents. lol wonder WHY? $$$ Physicians who see their practice primarily as a revenue stream. They instruct their secretary to have patients who call with follow-up questions schedule an appointment, because insurers don’t pay for phone calls, only office visits. They consider providing Botox injections for cash. They take a Doppler ultrasound course, buy a machine, and start doing their patients’ scans themselves, so that the insurance payments go to them rather than to the hospital. As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality!!!

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