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- From: rkaplan@netcom.com (Richard Kaplan)
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- Subject: Re: Medical Insurance and Cost Efficency
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.021046.28996@netcom.com>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 02:10:46 GMT
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- In article <By6t6B.FIG@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu
- (Herman Rubin) writes:
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- >add up. Also, primary care physicians must have diagnosticians, not
- >the present specialists, to fall back on. These need not even be
- >physicians, but thinkers. Thinking is greatly discouraged in our
- >present society; medical plans seem to pay only for actions.
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- Here you are 100% correct. Reimbursement for action
- instead of thinking is at the root of a great deal of
- the problems we have with our medical system today.
- It's a shame that so many people recognize and agree
- with this, yet nothing constructive is done about it.
- Medicare's RBRVS system was a feeble and ineffective
- attempt at this.
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