Are we headed towards a world in which each test, each procedure, and who knows, perhaps even each prescription, comes right out of the doctors pay or bonus?
If so, there is a BIG problem! The "logic" driving this is based on several utterly FALSE assumptions and the "less is more" approach actually increases costs and misery all around.
"Lower prices for medical care are the major explanation for the much lower medical costs of all the other rich democracies relative to the United States (37). Competing explanations—that the U.S. population is particularly unhealthy or that Americans use many more medical services—are largely false. In a detailed examination of health care spending patterns, the McKinsey Global Institute concluded that the United States population is "not significantly sicker" than that of Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, or the United Kingdom (3)."