Journal: Over Medicalized?
In your journal entry, answer the following case study questions:
• Should insurers take action to reduce surgery rates? Should individuals?
• How do providers' revenues change if imaging and surgery rates rise?
• How do patients' costs change if imaging and surgery rates rise?
• How do current incentive systems affect physicians' and patients' decisions?
Support your responses with examples from the case or references to your textbook.
If you had answered these questions as a mere consumer (before completing the module readings), do you think your answers would have been different? Explain why or why not.
How do you think your answers would differ if you were a caregiver for a loved one as opposed to the patient?