Opinion | The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses (Published 2019)
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Opinion | The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses (Published 2019)
Fighting a rising tide of paperwork and bureaucracy, providers of health care, whether physicians, nurses, or administrators, say that time has become a scarce resource of which they have far too little.
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The second downside is that, because providers are now incentivized to provide care more cheaply, they may under-treat patients, or recommend against necessary treatments.
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As Americans never tire of arguing, there may be many areas of our lives in which private interest plays the central role. But, as postwar Europe, exhausted by absolute death, collectively decided, health care shouldn’t be one of them.
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But some Americans have been pressing their countrymen to deal with that “first question” as a foundation for building a new national health care system. Professor Uwe Reinhardt, the economist at Princeton University and global leader in the field of health care economics, argues that U.S. policy makers have deliberately avoided the moral question.
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prioritize profits, even when those profits are derived
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PROVIDERS IN ALL PARTS OF the health care system recognize that troublesome social conditions drive much of their work and costs. Major challenges in people’s social circumstances—layoffs, foreclosures, accidents, violence—can create horrific health care needs, many of which become chronic and carry high price tags. These extreme needs are omnipres
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