Slowing health costs requires answering 3 simple questions

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Slowing health costs requires answering 3 simple questions
by Donald H. Taylor, Jr., PhD

If we ever slow health care cost inflation to a sustainable pace, it will be because we learn how to ask 3 simple questions when thinking about a medical treatment.


Does it improve quality of life for the patient?

Does it extend the patient’s life?

How much does it cost?

Asking the questions are of course much simpler than figuring out the answer, and far far simpler than deciding what to do with the answer.

The first step is not demonizing even the asking of the questions. This would represent a profound shift in our culture

via kevinmd.com

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Will be interesting to see who ultimately gets to make those decisions. The doctor, patient, insurance company, bureaucrat, etc.

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[Teeituptom]

Instead the Tea Party and the Republicans are looking at reducing the cost by reducing the care to the poor. Lets end medicare. All it does is promote entitlement, and make people dependent on it. Lets end Planned Parenthood, whose main goal is to educate to prevent unplanned pregnancy. Lets do away with WIC programs. Let women infants and children do without food. clothing and shelter. And lets not forget that all this causing the American Public School system, to collapse.
All while, giving unsurpassed tax cuts to the rich. 2/3 of all US corporations actually get by without paying any income taxes at all. This is a very sad situation.