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We need a new RAND study
The RAND Health Insurance Experiment (see also the complete study and a rebuttal to John Nyman's argument against it) is the gold standard for this type of discussion. Specifically, it found (quoting from the highlights): Averaged across all levels of coinsurance, participants (including both adults and children) with cost sharing made one to ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by Snarfangel on January 27, 2009
ER reform ideas
Even if it were legal for ERs to turn away non emergency patients, for a practical matter, they wouldn't. The risk of a patient seeming to have a non emergency complaint and then dieing before seeing a physician and the potential malpractice suits (and news stories) is one hell of a deterent. Even if it were a policy in the ER, and there were no ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by pachessnut on September 16, 2008
Have they ever been near an ER ?
NOT MAKING THIS UP. Ok, let's have a doctor put his HOME NUMBER in the telephone book, have DAILY WALK-in's and 24 hr direct to cell phone service. Size of practice is exactly average. 100 patients a week, easily that many phone calls. about 30-50% of visits are outside of office hours but RARELY at inconvenient times (mostly 5-7pm). ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by drugdoc on September 12, 2008