#costsofcare — Public Fediverse posts

New case study from the center left think tank #thirdway about #maine #hospital consolidation and how it's "ripping off patients"

As a Maine doc, the only omission I see is that they fail to discuss Maine's #certificateofneed law which allows hospitals here to block lower cost competitors. That's part of why we send some patients out of state for lower cost tests and surgeries.

https://www.thirdway.org/report/fixing-maines-broken-hospitals-a-case-study

#costsofcare #healthreform

@jeffjarvis

All those false positives ("indidentalomas") from full body #MRI will get expensive workups and then follow up studies that will be paid by the rest of us via higher insurance premiums and taxes.

Get some data first please. Failing that, add a special tax on these to cover the extra workups upfront instead of socializing their false positive costs to everyone.

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