Here Comes Health Care Rationing

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From DickMorris.com, June 6, 2009:

The photo op was too good to be true. Health care providers trooped out of the White House and trumpeted their goal of saving $1.7 trillion of costs over the next decade in health spending. Now these drug companies, hospitals, insurance companies, medical device manufacturers, labor unions and doctors have laid out their plans in more detail.

And right there, in plain print, is the beginning of medical care rationing. Now that the cameras have been put away and the media is no longer watching, their secret emerges: They are going to cut medical costs by cutting medical care. Right now, they cite four targets. They plan to:

1. Cut diagnostic imaging tests like MRIs and CAT scans.

2. Reduce the use of antibiotics.

3. Perform fewer Caesarean sections.

4. Cut care for management of chronic back pain

These decisions will not be medical but financial. They will not be based on a doctor’s opinion of what his or her patient needs, but a bureaucrat’s and an accountant s opinion of what the new health care system can afford.

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finnegag

May 31, 2011 at 8:42 am · Reply

I take your point about the white-coat photo op being a bit blatant but what is being proposed isn't as mad as you suggest. There certainly are people having MRI and CAT scans unnecessarily. These have to be paid for; the budget isn't infinite – whether it's paid for mostly by the state (as is the case if much of Europe, where I live) or mostly by private insurance companies. We need to use these diagnostics appropriately.

On the quesiton of antibiotics, surely you accept that overuse of antibiotics has led to anti-microbial resistance bacteria? These too should be used more judiciously.

If I may say so, I also think you have the Caesarean section equation backwards. To me, natural birth is appropriate in >90% of births (some evidence from holistic midwives suggest it's feasible in 98% of cases under the right circumstances and given time). The increase in Caesareans is a result of financial and time pressure trumping medical decision-making. Sections are more frequent on Friday afternoons when anaesthetists are watching the clock.

Cutting care for management of chronic back pain? Well, that just sounds cruel!

Can I just add something about the text box at the top of the page: you warn people against using inadequately tested pharmaceuticals yet suggest people learn how to use natural remedies. I doubt I'm the first person to point out that – based on that criteria – natural remedies can hardly be recommended either. Many of them have been used for decades, even centuries, but recording of adverse events is not scientifically rigorous. I imagine we're unlikely to agree on this but your reasons to counsel against using medicines seem to be contradicted by your warmth for natural medicines. Perhaps I've taken you up incorrectly but, taken to the extreme, it would appear you'd prefer a homeopathic remedy to paracetamol if my child has a fever. Paracetamol has been tested before it was placed on the market and it has survived decades of post-marketing pharmacovigilance.

Antibiotics, by the way, are also made by pharma companies so I'm not sure how you could be annoyed with plans to reduce their use. By your own logic, shouldn't you be in favour of ditching antibiotics for alternative therapies?

drbloem

May 31, 2011 at 9:37 am · Reply

It looks like we agree on many points but you may have missed the fact that Dick Morris and Eileen McGann wrote the article. It is not unusual that pharmaceuticals are being recalled so I don't agree that the testing of pharmaceuticals is always rigorous or unbiased. We have pharmaceutical companies conducting research on their own products. Many pharmaceuticals are rushed to market.
- finnegag
  
  June 1, 2011 at 10:01 am · Reply
  
  Thanks Fred,
  
  I figured you were endorsing the content of the article rather than just putting it up for discussion. (I must also admit that as I'm not based in the US I didn't know who Morris/McGann was until Google told me!)