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52. Who Gets a Heart Disease Test?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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How to Reduce Over Testing and Over Use

The more of these pieces of equipment that are sold, the more they're going to be used. A change in policy that disinccentivises that would be helpful. The question of how much health care use can we reliably reduce without having impacts on patients strikes me as a difficult one.

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