[Bud]

To me, this is just yet another argument to add to the gigantic stack of arguments against the current way of doing things in medicine.

Lately, I've been doing a side job in which I transcribe focus groups for various businesses, including several large health insurance firms. I am consistently stunned at the money they spend on this, and the cynical nature of the questions they ask, and how completely unrelated they are to anything even resembling patient care. They just aren't concerned with patient care. They are concerned with developing "innovative insurance products" to compete with the supposedly "innovative" offerings from other health care conglomerates.

People don't want "innovative insurance products". They want affordable health care, provided by physicians who are not driven to distraction by the bureaucratic requirements of dealing with ten different insurers who are all trying to pay out as little as possible.