http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/11/10/really-wanna-control-health-care-costs/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:32:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/11/10/really-wanna-control-health-care-costs/#comment-449363 FC Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:31:04 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/11/10/really-wanna-control-health-care-costs/#comment-449363 The same thing could be accomplished by banning or taxing Cadillac coverage. The traditional private insurance 80/20 split worked great for along time to put a break on costs. But then you didn't have the doctor recommending the MRI owning a piece of the imaging center and getting the juice from that business. Most people don't know enough to ask the doctor if the MRI is needed anyway. That doctor conflict of interest needs to banded also. So you see it's a little more complex that vouchers. The same thing could be accomplished by banning or taxing Cadillac coverage. The traditional private insurance 80/20 split worked great for along time to put a break on costs.
But then you didn’t have the doctor recommending the MRI owning a piece of the imaging center and getting the juice from that business. Most people don’t know enough to ask the doctor if the MRI is needed anyway. That doctor conflict of interest needs to banded also. So you see it’s a little more complex that vouchers.

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