Comments on: why health care costs can never fall as a % of GDP, Part One http://www.whytheheck.com/2009/10/07/why-health-care-costs-can-never-fall-as-a-of-gdp-part-one/ Sun, 20 May 2012 12:48:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: dblacklock http://www.whytheheck.com/2009/10/07/why-health-care-costs-can-never-fall-as-a-of-gdp-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-969 dblacklock Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:06:32 +0000 http://www.thinkoob.com/?p=619#comment-969 Rationing is the magic word. Your write - up in Oobonomics about the use of the hospice-style "end of life" specialists instead of the "extension of life" specialists would be a good place to start. There is a special person specifically trained and designated for a similar type of PR work on organ harvest teams. They know all the right things to say to convince a family that the best thing to do in their tragic situation is to help someone else by the donation of the organs of their brain dead relative - and they get all the appropriate papers signed in a time-expedient fashion. I googled Medicare DRG 541 after reading about it in Oobonomics and have it on my agenda to show your write-up to a hospital comptroller for his take on it. Certainly it would help if the profit motive were somehow minimized. DB Rationing is the magic word. Your write - up in Oobonomics about the use of the hospice-style “end of life” specialists instead of the “extension of life” specialists would be a good place to start. There is a special person specifically trained and designated for a similar type of PR work on organ harvest teams. They know all the right things to say to convince a family that the best thing to do in their tragic situation is to help someone else by the donation of the organs of their brain dead relative - and they get all the appropriate papers signed in a time-expedient fashion.

I googled Medicare DRG 541 after reading about it in Oobonomics and have it on my agenda to show your write-up to a hospital comptroller for his take on it.

Certainly it would help if the profit motive were somehow minimized.

DB

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