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Originally Posted by Gozer
"Competition" models don't work in health care because the object of health care is to ensure health across the board, not to reduce costs and maximize profit. Maximizing profits means less goes to care and more goes to shareholders. Profit should not be part of the health care equation. Moreover, competition assumes that consumers are well enough informed to know what they need and they don't, so they cannot shop intelligently.
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I somewhat disagree with this.
If you set standards and then have a competition model then the profits or dollars will be saved by looking at how the system operates and not the delivery of a satisfactory product, and thats what health care is, a product.
If you defined things like waiting times, average number of beds per region or area, minimum equipment requirements and number of doctors and nurses per patient and make that the 10 commandments of health care then in order to be profitable you have to look at other areas of the system that are maybe not patient facing as cost control centers.