DanielLC comments on Link: "Health Care Myth Busters: Is There a High Degree of Scientific Certainty in Modern Medicine?" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 02 April 2011 05:14:38AM *  3 points [-]

Start a business that does it right. If you can get past the regulators and such, and there are enough rational customers, you'd do better than everyone else, and they'd start copying you.

Well, good luck getting past regulators in a profession that operates as a self-regulating guild!

In my opinion, the only mechanism of competition that could conceivably ameliorate the systematic problems of medicine is the international medical tourism. However, I'm far from certain that free competition has much potential for preventing medicine from drifting away from reality, considering how much people are prone to biased and even outright magical thinking on this subject, even when all the incentives to get things right are in place.

Comment author: DanielLC 03 April 2011 05:56:14PM 0 points [-]

I think business have to be more rational than people in general. If you pay for your own health care, this would be a problem, but if you have health insurance, they'll just pay for what works.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 03 April 2011 11:07:09PM 2 points [-]

If you pay for your own health care, this would be a problem, but if you have health insurance, they'll just pay for what works.

This is more-or-less the reason health insurance companies are so hated.