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by HarryHirsch
4283 days ago
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How would improved diagnosis bring down the price of medicine? Medicine doesn't only consist of diagnosis, there's also treatment and infrastructure. It's obvious that any improvement in diagnosis of illness cuts down on misdirected treatment and improves public health, saving money would be a secondary effect. Besides, the fact that healthcare in the US is so expensive compared to the rest of the Western world is due to political reasons; we know how to bring down the cost of healthcare here without affecting outcomes by doing what the rest of the civilized world does. |
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I didn't say improved diagnosis would. I said replacing humans with machines would. If the process were 1 hour with a diagnostic bot and 1 hour of treatment with a doctor, that will allow 2 patients to be treated in 2 hours of a doctor's time (increasing supply and reducing price).
Your political baiting is completely orthogonal to the point. If you play politics and tweak the payment system (e.g. adopting India's excellent capitalism-based system), a doctor still spends 1 hour diagnosing and 1 hour treating. 1 patient is treated rather than 2.