Word: overtreatment
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Then again, many doctors and hospitals overtreat patients simply because they have a blank check to do so under many insurance programs. As much as 20% of all medical procedures and treatment is completely unnecessary, contends Dr. Robert Brook, director of health sciences for the Rand Corp. Cost of the waste: $132 billion a year. Aetna estimates that as much as 30% more ($198 billion) is discretionary care that may not solve the problem under treatment...
Reagan's decision to give up AFDC and food stamp programs, which he has criticized as being vastly abused, while retaining Medicaid, in which abuses are more likely to be committed by doctors who overtreat and overprescribe than by the indigent ill, angers some state officials. Says Gerald M. Thornton, director of social services for North Carolina's Forsyth County: "He wants to take Medicaid, a respectable program, and give us food stamps, a program that's so unpopular that a person who gets stamps might as well be wearing tattoos. That's like getting...
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