>Re the Medicare annual "wellness" visit - how much do you suppose is the set fee paid to the physician for this service?
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Not much.
That's why I'm out of there in 20 minutes.
My point is that what the MD deems to be "necessary" is more a function of what he can collect for it than its efficacy.


>>The issue is that healthcare is capable of consuming the entire GDP if allowed.

Of course it is. There is no limit to what these voodoo practitioners will try to persuade people that they "need."

I find a parallel with the Catholic church during the middle ages, where the clergy was able to mask its voodoo as dogma for centuries.. until someone woke up and said.. "this is nonsense!"
Each day I say a special prayer for all those Catholics spending eternity in hell for eating one lousy hot dog on Friday before Vatican II said it was OK.