Trimming the fat
September 15, 2011 -- Does Livermore have the most slender people? Does nearby Los Banos have the fattest? Or does it have the most bariatric surgeons? When you're selling a hammer, does everything look like a nail? Are high-tech healthcare choices driven by doctors who are also businessmen? (I have written on this topic previously.) See the data for yourself at the California Healthcare Foundation's interactive map, released today. The hardest question: what should we do about it? |
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Dan Keller's Nursing, Health Policy & Healthcare Technology Blog
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798