Over the past few weeks we’ve spent an inordinate amount of time trying to help physician colleagues hire replacement employees after theirs were poached by the large health system that rents office space to them. It seems that the supposedly religion-based mega-combination health insurer, hospital chain, medical buildings owner, clinical laboratory and purchaser of physician practices had recently decided to open a large new outpatient
The U.S. health care “system” has been built up over the last 60 years during the most massive transfer of resources, outside of war, in the nation’s history. U.S. medical practice patterns, U.S. medical ethics, U.S. public expectations have all been formed during a time when health care spending has had an average growth of two-and-a-half times the rate of inflation.
Dr. David Gelber who writes the Heard in the OR blog recently had a must-read post published on KevinMD entitled “Rigid regulation can become detrimental to patient care.” Anyone and everyone involved in or affected by America’s healthcare system should read this article. It clearly illustrates exactly the type of good intentions that are sending patient, doctors and nurses further and further down the Road
Over and over on these pages, we make the point that, for the most part, medical care is and should be something that is custom-tailored to each individual. Different people have different genetics, anatomies, physiology, personalities, preferences and financial circumstances. As long as they are willing to bear the financial weight of their decisions, there is no reason why the healthcare services offered to them
Not long ago, the News Director at 1110 KBND radio in Bend, Oregon asked us a simple question: “Why does the cost of healthcare keep going up?” Initially it seemed that the answer should be perfectly obvious. After all, hasn’t everyone been keeping up with what’s been going on in the Obama Administration and in Congress and in the states and with the healthcare reform
 
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