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22 May 2019 Conversations with Tyler Ezekiel Emanuel on the Practice of Medicine, Policy, and Life
“One or two or three percent of the population can afford concierge medicine, but 97 percent of us, first of all, can’t afford it, and for many of us, it’s just not the highest priority in our life. So we won’t pay that extra money to get those docs.”
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- Ezekiel Emanuel
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- 22 May 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…So you would do that, say, with vouchers, perhaps, in some counterfactual world? Yeah, there are a lot of ways of doing it. I don’t think you actually need vouchers. You need to make doctors fiscally responsible — or at risk, as we say in the business — for their patients’ health, for the total cost of care of their patients. And then they really are going to focus their attention on more sick people. And yeah, the rich will always buy out, and we need to recognize that. One or two or three percent of the population can afford concierge medicine, but 97 percent of us, first of all, can’t afford it, and for many of us, it’s just not the highest priority in our life. So we won’t pay that extra money to get those docs. How can we improve medical education?…
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