Archive for Theodore Levy
Theodore Levy is a physician in the southwest.
Doctors Are Government Employees
Doctors speak frequently among themselves about problems in medicine: decreased collections; inability to spend more time with patients; difficulty getting consults from specialists, especially for Medicare/Medicaid patients; enormous time wasted with patients who aren’t really sick (sometimes they’re old and lonely; sometimes they’re unemployed with nothing else to do—visits to the doctor for the poor [...]
22Oct2010 | Theodore Levy | 4 comments | ContinuedDoctors Are Government Employees
If doctors and patients want better health care, there’s an easy way to achieve it.
9Aug2010 | Theodore Levy | 18 comments | ContinuedWhy Doctors Don’t Want Free-Market Medicine
You may have heard that the AMA and “America’s physicians” favor universal health care. That’s true of the AMA, but that organization represents fewer than 20 percent of the nation’s doctors. And it’s true of many academic university physicians, but anecdotally it is obviously untrue of most doctors in private practice. Many of those docs [...]
29Jun2010 | Theodore Levy | 16 comments | ContinuedDo We Really Want a Right to Health Care?
Do you have a right to health care? People want a right to health care because they think it will guarantee them the services they need. But might obtaining health care as a political right rather than a market commodity have a downside? The government cannot produce or purchase an infinite amount of health care. [...]
20Apr2010 | Theodore Levy | 4 comments | ContinuedThe End of Medicine: Not With a Bang, But a Whimper
Social change can be revolutionary, sudden, and swift, but more commonly it moves at a glacial pace. Yet glaciers work great change, and great damage, given enough time. There has been much talk of people leaving the medical profession if government further bureaucratizes health care. But the odds are great that there won’t be any [...]
24Mar2010 | Theodore Levy | 6 comments | ContinuedMedical Markets Can’t Work?
Dr. Darshak Sanghavi, an academic pediatric cardiologist who (like all physicians) financially benefits from the cartelization of medicine, explains in Slate, the online magazine, that health care markets can’t work because of the information asymmetry between physician and patient (“Talk to the Invisible Hand”). So we need the cartel. This is not particularly surprising; most [...]
5Jan2010 | Theodore Levy | 5 comments | Continued-
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