Government (Corporate) directed health care

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In a message dated 1/15/2005 5:03:03 PM Central Standard Time,  
sumieb at compuserve.com writes:

A doctor  still decides how he/she will practice medicine.  But  government,
businesses and insurance companies will decide how the doctor  is reimbursed.
For many then, this can indirectly decide how the doctor  practices medicine.




Or some doctors around the world still practice for fee for  service.   Some 
payment in some locations is still paid in barter,or  even in kind payments, 
such as chickens,eggs, and food.    
 
When governments, businesses, and insurance companies decide just who takes  
care of what patient and how that medicine will be practiced, then we will be  
very close to the unsavory social experiments in health care delivery during 
the  3rd Reich.   That time happilly is past.    I fear that  some on these 
lists would like to see a return of government or even corporate  America (or 
pick a country) determine just who gets care and what care is given  to which 
person in a two tier or vern 4 tier  system.      
 
k

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