D.G. MARTIN: Wasting Money on Medical Treatments?
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
By Staff
North Carolina's General Assembly went home last week without coming up with a way to deal with the projected shortfall in the state's employee health-care program.
When the legislators come back next year, they might want to take a look at some radical ideas for saving health-care dollars proposed by UNC medical school professor Nortin Hadler in his new book, "Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America."
Hadler would restrict funding for medical procedures that have not been scientifically proven to provide positive benefits.
What kinds of procedures is he talking about? (more…)
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