Originally Posted by bigluv

If you ask me the primary problems of health care relate to the fact that the feedback loop is broken. What I mean by that is, a bad Dr. has to be REALLY bad before they get sued and maybe have their license revoked. Whereas all the little mistakes they've been making their whole career never came back to them to teach them anything. Look at your own situation - you dealt with probably hundreds of individuals and none of them will ever get the feedback - hey you got this one wrong, this was the correct diagnosis, this was how it was treated successfully.

1) Increase patient outcome / patient opinion feedback to the doctor and to the public so that even if the Dr. doesn't care his pocketbook will when his patients dry up

2) Completely remove medical insurance and force clear billing so that patients now care about efficiency and outcomes

3) Completely remove government funding (ok, limit) and union involvement

I've seen so much waste and stupidity during a similar journey as yourself that it makes me sick. (heh) Closing the feedback loop enables there to be a darwinian improvement process whereas right now, there is no force acting to improve outcomes.