
What Broke American Health Care?
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The Cost Consciousness Effect of Health Insurance
Cost unconsciousness favors more comprehensive coverage with fewer manage care, controls broader choice of doctors and paying health care providers on what we call a fee for service basis. It encourages doctors to do more because there's a lot of uncertainty in medicine. The the entire us. Health sector tilts in the direction of this type of fee for service payment system that promotes low quality care. We don't get that kind of competition which would force the service providers to compete and improve the quality of care. And so we end up getting more physician visits, more specialist visits, more hospitalizations, more tests, more procedures. When that happens, you get more wasteful care, more stuff that doesn't make the
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