How could coupons possibly be worsening the health care crisis (yes, coupons)? Is it possible that insurance companies aren't the problem? Is the "public option" debate missing the point?
These questions and more are answered in the this intriguing and entertaining show about health care costs and reform. I think this matters and is relevant. Each part is about an hour.
Part 1: More is less
Part 2: Someone else's money
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1321
It's relevant to our specialty and to this particular time in the country. We're all at the beginning of our careers and the entire industry is being rethought. right now. by a lot of people who aren't doctors.
If you feel that discussion of health care really breaks along partisan lines, it's this kind of report that cuts through that. And if you're feeling uneasy about the current debate because it seems to be missing the point in some way, that's what this is about.
I think we all want to practice evidence based medicine. It's at the heart of our specialty. All the forces that you haven't really thought about why we sometimes (often?) don't do that thing that all of the evidence supports.
It's relevant to our specialty and to this particular time in the country. We're all at the beginning of our careers and the entire industry is being rethought. right now. by a lot of people who aren't doctors.
If you feel that discussion of health care really breaks along partisan lines, it's this kind of report that cuts through that. And if you're feeling uneasy about the current debate because it seems to be missing the point in some way, that's what this is about.
I think we all want to practice evidence based medicine. It's at the heart of our specialty. All the forces that you haven't really thought about why we sometimes (often?) don't do that thing that all of the evidence supports.
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