Would a doctor prescribe Tamiflu without seeing the patient?
We do it all the time. It saves time, money and contamination of the facility. It’s a matter of the doctor and programmer sitting down together [to develop the self-diagnosis material]. Regarding co-payments, a patient has to have some skin in the game. They’ve got to get a reward for taking good care of themselves and also for not wasting resources. Taking some responsibility, some ownership, is important. That’s the attraction of medical savings accounts. People can keep some money if they have some responsibility for spending it. Nobody washes a rental car. But if we empower and authorize beneficiaries to be better medical shoppers, they will save money… It gives you some strong alternatives to raising fees abruptly or in a big way. Your predecessor was a strong advocate for raising fees… You haven’t embraced the increases. Why? Just from the standpoint of doing the right thing for the patient, I think abrupt changes in fees and deductibles could be unsettling. There are some reason
