Colonoscopy is overly respected, overuse and overpriced - consumers should resist and resist

Introduction: Several questions in the setup phase

Should you trust your doctor? Is the medical system organized and controlled by modern road robbers? What can we learn from the way colonoscopy is promoted and priced in the United States? What is the most important point in the brief exploration of these issues?

The following is a short answer to the first three rhetorical questions. I will save the last question [ie the recommended action plan] to the end.

1. No, don't trust your doctor if you have enough to get in touch with one or more doctors. Instead, be vigilant and verify that the relevant issues are independently checked and other qualified opinions are obtained. Doctors and other providers are not your enemy, but they are definitely not your friends. They are well-trained professionals. They are in a complex dysfunction. Most people want to do the right thing, but the pressure can even lead moral practitioners to defend the course of action. This is not in your best interest. . In this article, I will explain your interests and public interest in a higher power range - profit motives - retreat to the second line.
2. Yes, the medical system is road robbery, about the 21st century.
3. A lot of things can be learned by looking closely at the colonoscopy industrial complex. The program being executed can be used as a canary for the US medical system coal mine. Be aware that it is too late to warn and prepare yourself as much as possible.

Colonoscopy, health care providers and freelance businesses run Amuck

Colonoscopy is the most expensive routine screening test in the country. A report from the Commonwealth Fund revealed that the cost of this process ranged from $6,385 to $19,438. [See Explain the US High Health Care Expenditure: International Comparison of Supply, Utilization, Price, and Quality, May 3, 2012, Volume 10.] These figures are the retail prices of uninsured people; insurance companies usually lower prices Up to about $3,500. Americans have the privilege of having employer-based insurance. It is often assumed that health care is basically free, although co-payments and deductibles are rising, but this is not the case. Old people in medical insurance have made the same mistake, usually because they are Exhaustated [That is, too tired to give garbage].

Just like the high cost of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, everyone ends up paying the price without any puns.

In other Western countries, the price of colonoscopy is on average several hundred dollars. Compare this with the US experience:

Americans pay more for almost every interaction with the health system... The list of prices compiled by the International Health Federation found that medical services are more expensive in each category - a significant increase.

We lead the world in health spending, although many studies show that we don't get better care, and that we are less healthy than almost everyone else in the West.

American 4th century road robbery form

If you have landed on the moon or otherwise lost contact for many years, here is a summary of why so many experts believe that the US medical system is out of control:

• The doctor prescribed expensive surgery. However, the high price of common products accounts for our $2.7 trillion annual health care label - 18% of the gross national product. [Source: Elisabeth Rosenthal, Pay until injury: high cost case study , The New York Times, June 1, 2013. ]
• The doctor pushed too many tests. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 10 million Americans receive colonoscopy every year [$10 billion a year]. One motivation for so many tests is defensive medicine. The United States is like a lawsuit. Insurance regulations or their employers/partners/professional associations require [or exert pressure] doctors to prevent litigation, rather than patient poverty or even poor health outcomes.
• Pharmaceutical companies saturate the media through products that are directly consumer-oriented. Saturated advertising campaigns for whatever medicine you do or may do will distort the patient's judgment. Encourage consumers to be interested in quick fixes. Patients have the incentive to market overpriced, overpriced products to suppliers.
• Greedy rules. So-called non-profit hospitals, insurance companies, equipment manufacturers and other participants in the medical industry are committed to creating the highest profits that can be legally proven. The pursuit of maximum return is by far the primary goal of the US medical system.
• High-tech, drug-centered treatment dominates. In later life, chronic diseases consume disproportionate medical care and costs, and there is little resources for prevention, education, and emergency care.
• Cost/return is relegated to the second line. For services that only extend the death process, there is a lot of health care.
• There is too little motivation to take reasonable action. It is a disturbing reality to ignore the high cost and low return of medical investment relative to other industrialized countries in the study: Americans are too fond of guns, gods, demigods and drugs. They seldom commit to rational and critical thinking, exercise, food and plant-based dining, and the art of painting that supports the environment for themselves and others.

Colonoscopies as a coal mine canary

Colonoscopy has made my vote the biggest scam in modern medicine. We should stop using the term colonoscopy - Colonoscamy More descriptive and appropriate. Given the possible and already documented abuses of the US healthcare system, the biggest scam difference is no small honour or a rather suspicious difference. Colonoscopy is marketed through fear, unlike religion. Colonoscopy consultants sometimes describe the horrific torment of colon cancer and the high ability to die prematurely.

A year ago, I reluctantly agreed to participate in a encouraging conversation with a famous proctologist. This topic is why I should have a colonoscopy, although there are no risk factors, except for my later years. Only after years of friends, family and various doctors, including my dentist, I agreed to be interviewed! Hieronymus Bosch is proud of the graphical depiction of the terrible consequences of the failure to find polyps. I remembered the visions raised by the nuns about 65 years ago. Parnabas Parish School. The eternal fire of hell is described as such exquisite and vivid details that anyone would believe that the nuns were there. I think all these scares are to make sure I never missed a crowd on Sunday. [For a while, I didn't, although I was really late, so I still count there.] So I listened to a colorful colonoscopy - still decided not to do it. [I even wrote an article about the interview experience.]

Colonoscopy is called quasi-operation. Not long ago, a simple office program has evolved into a more complex and thriving business. There are now some surgical centers that offer lucrative colonoscopy and perform beyond medical guidance. The goal is to maximize revenue; lobbying, marketing and turf competition for some experts, coupled with huge profit margins, account for high costs. Other tests for colon cancer are less invasive, cheaper, and equally effective.

Australia does not even pay for colonoscopy as a standard screening procedure and is not common in other Western countries.

American free enterprise anomaly

In this country, unlike any other industrialized country, the government does not regulate or intervene in medical pricing other than setting payment rates for Medicare and Medicaid. Other countries see health care as the right of all, and treat hospitals and other delivery systems as utilities. For consumers, what preservatives are called free markets is not free.

Imagine if you go to a restaurant to order your meals, I don't know how much it will cost. Imagine the anxiety of waiting for the waiter to bring a check. Or, apply the health care model to other normal purchases, regardless of size. If you load, the supermarket groceries brought home and consumed have been added up and recorded in your account, but after you have processed most of the content, you have not seen the bill for a few days or weeks! Of course, this kind of transaction is ridiculous, but it does so in the medical system. I sometimes receive a bill for medical procedures submitted a year ago, when the hospital or doctor has given up a full or sufficient payment negotiation with Medicare. This is strange, irrational, unfair, and intolerable.

Summary and commitment to takeaway courses

Ask yourself, Do you have to pass this passive and tolerate this state? Think about you not.

First, with regard to colonoscopy, it is important to know that for most people, regular examination of blood in the stool is sufficient. Unfortunately, it is difficult to address this low-cost option for patients who are not wary and vulnerable. This resistance to colonoscopy will be strongly resisted by medical consultants involved in the procedure. Fecal testing is not a high-yield producer in the industry.

What can you do to avoid spending more on low-quality health care and getting worse? You have three choices: die, move or adopt a truly healthy lifestyle. Stick to the latter until you move or die. Personally, I will choose a truly healthy lifestyle. Regarding colonoscopy, I agree with the diet of the entire food plant, adequate exercise and less cancer detection methods, rather than unpleasant, expensive and suspicious invasive surgery. Life is full of risks - and...

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