tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36634196.post7998213889638856468..comments2023-10-09T11:33:37.853-05:00Comments on The IN VIVO Blog: While You Were Watching Super Bowl XLIIIChris Morrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04075266444951558159noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36634196.post-16592761675993644562009-02-02T14:56:00.000-05:002009-02-02T14:56:00.000-05:00"The business models of health care in America are..."The business models of health care in America are broken, reports the NYT--for example, 'there is no financial incentive to keep patients healthy'." ... <BR/><BR/>Geee ... as a patient, I have a very high, personal incentive to keep healthy ... it's my life. On the other hand, an insurance company with a fixed rate, pre-paid contract from my employer has NO incentive to keep anyone healthy ... and physicians overwhelmed by the mass of rules (and rule checker auditors) have little incentive to do anything more than spend the requisite 11 minutes on average seeing me.<BR/><BR/>In ancient China, on the other hand, a physician was paid when the patient was well and not paid if the patient wasn't well. What did they know that we don't know?<BR/><BR/>Either employers should rewrite the conditions in their contracts with health payors or insurance dollars, like school vouchers, should be given to the potential patients, who decide how to contract for health care. Perhaps a two-tier system ("routine" health care and "catastrophic" health care) is the way to go ...<BR/><BR/>Two things I know: I don't want government involved in my health care and I don't want a company that measures its value to its customers based on its balance sheet determining what my health care dollars get me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36634196.post-88329551882791295492009-02-02T09:08:00.000-05:002009-02-02T09:08:00.000-05:00The Pinker article was in the New York Times on Ja...The Pinker article was in the New York Times on January 7, 2009.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com