You raised really interesting points in your analysis. I do agree that the patients benefit under this proposed model. Perhaps that is the reason this model has not been championed and adopted by our health care and political fraternity. You also bring up another point that is often missed in the context of health care spending. When patients/consumers don’t spend their lifesaving just to breathe, they spend that surplus of wealth on other goods that benefit society and leads to more job creation. Needless to say that health care industry should be about curing and taking care of the patient and not a job creation hub.
Any reform will need to go through the change management process. Your analysis is on the point that patients or physicians may resist and groan about the inconveniences the changes may cause to them. That can be addressed through a carefully scaffold mass public campaign. It can be used to prepare and educate the public and other stakeholders of the upcoming changes and most importantly, how it affects their little world. …show more content…
However, there is some cause for cheers in the long run. A study led by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind (2016) projected that lawyers, doctors, and many mainstream professionals will be replaced by artificial intelligence and robots as long as the work is broken down and there is less reliance on judgment, creativity, or empathy. Therefore, the doctor shortage issue can be addressed with lesser or no immigration but that era will present a completely different set of challenges for many professions
Any reform will need to go through the change management process. Your analysis is on the point that patients or physicians may resist and groan about the inconveniences the changes may cause to them. That can be addressed through a carefully scaffold mass public campaign. It can be used to prepare and educate the public and other stakeholders of the upcoming changes and most importantly, how it affects their little world. …show more content…
However, there is some cause for cheers in the long run. A study led by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind (2016) projected that lawyers, doctors, and many mainstream professionals will be replaced by artificial intelligence and robots as long as the work is broken down and there is less reliance on judgment, creativity, or empathy. Therefore, the doctor shortage issue can be addressed with lesser or no immigration but that era will present a completely different set of challenges for many professions