CNN Healthcare March 17, 2013 00:15:00
The history of how the american health care system grew is not one of order, its one of sort of haphazard chaos. >> everybodys doing what makes sense to them individually. we pay hospitals to be full, so they try to be full. we pay doctors to see patients, so they see a lot of patients. we create a public expectation that more is better, which isnt true. so people seek more. everybodys doing their job, we just designed the jobs wrong. >> physicians are well intentioned. even when bad things happ...
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