You Have Heard This Before

I like Paul Krugman the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist at the New York Times and a Professor of Economics at Princeton.

In a recent column he was ranting about some in Congress wanting to privatize Medicare and how some also want folks to be consumers rather than patients.Dr. Krugman writes about the very special doctor patient relationship and how it is almost a sacred pact between two people. The patient trusts the doctor to take care of him or her and the doctor will do so selflessly.

I have spoken about the sacred relationship that I have with you, my patient, on several occasions and now others are starting to say the same thing.

The patient CANNOT be a good 'consumer' of dental services because dentistry has become very mediocre and you cannot expect to pay an average dentist the same fee that you would pay a superb dentist..You can't buy a Ferrari for the same cost as a Ford even though they are both cars.

Read Paul Krugman's article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/22/opinion/22krugman.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss