What feature of a UHC system specifically would have an effect on overutilization of care?
UHC systems are designed according to the health care needs of the population, they do not evolve spontaneously according to where entrepreneurs of the moment believe they can harvest some profit. In a rationally-designed health care system the doctor would be encouraged to treat his patients appropriately – not necessarily scrimping on treatments. Over-prescribing doctors would be noticeable as statistical outliers in their prescriptions and medical panels could review the details of such outliers (often there would be a logically clear reason why a particular physician tends to serve a certain patient population). This would be a rational way to approach the problem. (see Congressional testimony). Further our current profit-driven health care system is also constantly challenged by overutilization, so that any new miracle technique is immediately a worry for increased costs. How is that any different? Also, with a UHC system we would either have one single risk pool, or at least a co
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