roundtable: Re: Republicans

roundtable: Re: Republicans

Re: Republicans

Conal L Hession (esquire@creighton.edu)
Mon, 6 Feb 1995 12:52:52 -0600 (CST) 

Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 12:52:52 -0600 (CST)
From: Conal L Hession <esquire@creighton.edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Republicans
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On Sat, 4 Feb 1995, Mike W. Perry wrote:
> 
> The real areas where costs have been skyrocketing are education (lower 
> and higher) and medicine. Both have heavy government involvement and 
> subsidies as well as little opportunity for consumer choice.


Please Mike, give me a break.  Little consumer choice in medicine???????  

Where is the list that says a medicare or medicaid recipient can only 
use a certain physician or hospital?  I'd love to see the list.  I my 
experience, most EVERY doctor and hospital accept medicare and medicaid.  
Furthermore, the studies done in connection with skyrocketing health 
care costs show that hospitals overbuild, in an effort to attract 
physicians  (Where the doctor has his priviledges is where the patient 
will be admitted.) The hospitals know that the patients, RARELY decide 
which hospital they go to.  Consequently hospitals invest in lots of 
helicopters, CAT scanners, PET scanners and other marginally usefull 
crap that there really only need to be one or two of in many communities.  
Then the hospital passes it on to the consumers.

Interestingly enough, the state of Florida found that when the physicians 
owned a health care providing entity or equipment, the doc was 4 times 
more likely to prescribe the service and made 12 times as much off the 
job.  So much for big government destroying our lives.


Ranting in Omaha.

Conal L Hession
<esquire@creighton.edu>

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