There is a video on youtube which is now over four years old which many physicians-in-training find hilarious:
The "news" that physicians in Florida are performing unindicated procedures because they have a financial incentive to do so is not news to anyone in the health care profession.
People respond to incentives. There are incentives to perform procedures. Physicians are people. Follow me?
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Yep! But the billion dollar question ( literally, unfortunately) is how do we fix this problem ? We need to totally overhaul this system. We also need to put incentives in place for the public to want to be healthy.
For starters, we have to end the fee-for-service payment model. Total conflict of interest if doctors get paid for offering treatment but not if they don't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee-for-service
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