I have written before on this subject pointing out that more health care is not necessarily better health care; the lack of coordination and transferable patient records, defensive medicine and sometimes the plain old financial incentives built into our fee-for-service system cause unnecessary testing, scans and procedures.
A recent article in the New York Times brings this important subject into focus. You see, it’s not only the billions of dollars wasted on unnecessary, inefficient care; more important it is the risk such care poses for patients.
For the most part once you enter the health care system, you lose control. As long as that is true, you should be able to trust the system. That is not entirely the case now.
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