Where Healthcare and Health Insurance are concerned, becoming a questioning consumer can be an antidote for being overtreated.
"Not every mystery has to be solved, and not every problem has to be addressed. That's hard to get your brain around." Ms. Kathryn Gullo, quoted by Tara Parker-Pope, "Well / Overtreatment is Taking a Harmful Toll" p. D1, col. 3 (New York Times Nat'l ed., "Science Times" Section, Tuesday, August 28, 2012).
These are all different ways to describe the same thing: People are being overtreated and their Healthcare is harming them, not helping them for as long as they accept their tests, diagnoses and prescriptions without even questioning what the effects that these tests, diagnoses and prescriptions will have on their lives. This Healthcare and Health Insurance model also holds the national economy in a stranglehold. See David Leonhardt, "Economic Scene / No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions" (New York Times Online, posted December 19, 2007), reporting Mr. Leonhardt's choice of Shannon Brownlee's book, "Overtreated," as "the economics book of the year."
The author is Co-Chair of the Health, Life and Disability Insurance Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Litigation Section.
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