{"id":2563,"date":"2009-06-23T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/healthcare-reform-the-basics.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:19:24","slug":"healthcare-reform-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2563","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Reform: The basics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The times, they are a’changing.<\/p>\n

Whether you’re on the right or left or somewhere in the middle, you’ve probably got an opinion on the coming changes that we can expect to our healthcare system.<\/p>\n

This is a great summary from NIH.gov.<\/a> <\/p>\n

<\/span>The part I like the best is that which emphasizes prevention. Yes, we want to be able to treat illness. However, we don’t want to create a system that looks at “treatment” as a business model.<\/p>\n

We currently suffer from what is called “over-utilization” of the system — not by patients, but by doctors. Here’s the incentive: the more you treat, the more you get paid.<\/p>\n

Whether you think this is right, wrong, or indifferent, the bottom line is that costs skyrocket when “treatment” becomes a product rather than a process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The times, they are a’changing. Whether you’re on the right or left or somewhere in the middle, you’ve probably got an opinion on the coming changes that we can expect … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494],"tags":[427],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-healthcare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-Fl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2562,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2562","url_meta":{"origin":2563,"position":0},"title":"Healthcare Costs","author":"Will Clower","date":"June 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"There is an inflection point. 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