Why It's So Tough to Reduce Unnecessary Medical Care - California Healthline
Treatments that don’t help patients, and may even harm them, are difficult to eliminate because they can be big sources of revenue.
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Treatments that don’t help patients, and may even harm them, are difficult to eliminate because they can be big sources of revenue.
The U.S. spends huge amounts of money on health care that does little or nothing to help patients, and may even harm them. Those treatments and medical tests raise costs, lead to health complications, and interfere with more appropriate care. The structure of the U.S. health system, which rewards doctors for providing more care rather than the right care, has made it difficult to stop such waste.
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The U.S. spends huge amounts of money on health care that does little or nothing to help patients, and may even harm them.