Commented on: CrossFit Health Panel: Chronic Disease
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Mitch Collins
September 22nd, 2021 at 2:05 pm
Commented on: CrossFit Health Panel: Chronic Disease
If you look at the "health care" system as an economic entity, it makes perfect sense. Bad sense, but perfect. In economic terms, a physician is a production unit, and the 10-minute time slots are revenue units. Spend more time with a patient but don't get more revenue, and the physician, or her practice, is out of business. Absent a systemic change to the economic incentives, we will be the definition of crazy with ever-worsening outcomes. The only way that has worked is single-payer. It is not perfect, but among the other 29 developed countries, their health care costs less and has equal or better outcomes.
It isn't complicated. It is (mostly) not an ethical failure. It is rudimentary economics.
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Jim Rix
September 22nd, 2021 at 5:47 pm
The payment system is a huge problem, but it can be changed to incentivize health over procedural treatments and the prescription of drugs. From my experience, I’ve never ran into a doc who truly understands and works on the holistic level of nutrition and (especially) movement. I’m trying out a new Osteopath tomorrow, as the DO track sounds more health focused than the MD track.
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