our own system
Hi there, I'm Drew Weilage and I'm working to make healthcare better for patients.
This is a blog with links to healthcare goings on, trends, and uncategorized interestingness as well as attempts to filter my own healthcare thinking through essay.
I am greatly aware of my idealistic, naive even, views on a number of topics. But frankly, I think healthcare is in dire need of more of the "what's possible/what could be" type of thinking. I'm greatly protective of my unabashed idealism but always open to reason and discourse about any of it.
This is round two of my blogging life, the first being archived here.
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Blaming medical technology
Fast Company has an article about the role of medical technology in sky-high healthcare costs. It even calls (the heretofore untouchable) designers enablers. An interesting excerpt offers the crux of the issue:
At $2 million apiece, with a monthly maintenance bill running around $20,000, [CT] scanners are bought in bunches by hospitals eager to lure patients and blue-chip doctors. In contravention of basic macroeconomics, the supply is actually driving demand. The more scanners hospitals snatch up, the more scans doctors order—76 million in 2005 versus 40 million in 2000—in part because they’re paid per test (that’s another story), but also to recoup hospitals’ losses on the equipment.
