A new twist on an old conflict of interest

May 07, 2009 23:21

Imagine you found out your doctor was receiving kickbacks from your insurance company. For every test your doctor didn't run the insurance would give the doctor a percentage of what they saved on the test. Would that be a monstrous betrayal? There are already insurance plans that do this. It is called capitation because the insurance company pays the doctor a flat per capita rate. Whatever the doctor doesn't use for tests and referrals he gets to keep. The practice is immoral but has been going on for years.

What is new is that the Massachussetts government is considering making it mandatory for everyone. If this passes the good people of Massachussetts will have every right to eject the tyrants that passed it by force of arms.
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