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I keep on having the thought: what happens when we can cure every disease and people will live to be very old with a very old body. Where do we stop? Technology in medical care keeps on advancing just like it is advancing in computer devices and cars that drive themselves. Because doctors must be "reasonably skillful and careful" (as seen through the eyes of a jury) to avoid committing malpractice, every doctor will take a few extra precautions. The "just to be sure" CAT scan that you had probably cost an extra $1000. My point is this: before the invention of the CAT scan, medical care was cheaper. Multiply that by other new medical devices, such as MRI, etc. and naturally the price is going to be higher. Why can't we as a nation accept a medical system where a malpractice lawyer is not looking over every doctor's shoulder? Or accept a doctor's learned opinion, rather than using an expensive machine to double check the diagnosis? Every time someone mentions those kind of ideas, other people yell "death panel". It's not a death panel it is managing our medical system so it is cost efficient, and reasonable. Doctors are humans and humans are fallible. Why must everyone who gets sick go through a battery of tests "just to be sure", and walk out of the hospital with a $10,000 bill to pay? I will gladly take a risk if it's going to cost me thousands of dollars - just to be sure. We all are going to die sometime.
I keep on having the thought: what happens when we can cure every disease and people will live to be very old with a very old body. Where do we stop? Technology in medical care keeps on advancing just like it is advancing in computer devices and cars that drive themselves. Because doctors must be "reasonably skillful and careful" (as seen through the eyes of a jury) to avoid committing malpractice, every doctor will take a few extra precautions. The "just to be sure" CAT scan that you had probably cost an extra $1000.
My point is this: before the invention of the CAT scan, medical care was cheaper. Multiply that by other new medical devices, such as MRI, etc. and naturally the price is going to be higher.
Why can't we as a nation accept a medical system where a malpractice lawyer is not looking over every doctor's shoulder? Or accept a doctor's learned opinion, rather than using an expensive machine to double check the diagnosis? Every time someone mentions those kind of ideas, other people yell "death panel".
It's not a death panel it is managing our medical system so it is cost efficient, and reasonable. Doctors are humans and humans are fallible. Why must everyone who gets sick go through a battery of tests "just to be sure", and walk out of the hospital with a $10,000 bill to pay? I will gladly take a risk if it's going to cost me thousands of dollars - just to be sure. We all are going to die sometime.
