[PEN-L:9437] Re: Re: RE: Re: Shades of Summers

[frank@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Ellen Frank)]

pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>But a key criticism of the HMOs is that they take away decision-making
>power from the MDs, so that decisions aren't made with the patient's
>interest in mind.
 Of course, a key criticism of fee-for-service medicine is that it gives
too
much power to MD's who fatten their earnings by prescriping "medically
unnecessary and inappropriate care."   HMO's are excoriated for
promoting drive-through deliveries, but back in the bad-old days of
fee-for-service medicine, forcep deliveries followed by
two weeks of confinement to a hospital
bed was the norm.  MD's, in my opinion, get off way to lightly in
health care debates.

				Ellen