Want to know how the health care system operates...read Vanessa Furhman's article in Friday's Wall Street Journal " A Novel Plan Helps Hospital Wean Itself Off Pricey Tests" (The headline is a bit misleading) which describes how health care financing discourages ways to pay doctors and use technologies that prevent disease and keep people healthy.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116857143155174786-search.html
In a perfect world we shouldn't expand access to health care in ways that sustain this stupidity. We should give the money to providers and plans that actually will demonstrate they will improve health. That means expanding SCHIP or access to adult health care through Medicaid or Medicare is just flushing money down the toilet...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116857143155174786-search.html
In a perfect world we shouldn't expand access to health care in ways that sustain this stupidity. We should give the money to providers and plans that actually will demonstrate they will improve health. That means expanding SCHIP or access to adult health care through Medicaid or Medicare is just flushing money down the toilet...
