Where’s The Covert Rationing?

Posted on April 16, 2009
Filed Under General Rationing Issues |

DrRich likes to believe that all the posts on this blog are directly related, in one way or another, to the theme of covert healthcare rationing. But lately it has come to his attention that some new readers, those who come here to actually learn specifics about the methods and practices of covert  rationing, occasionally have difficulty in finding exactly what they are looking for. So, as entranced as these new readers undoubtedly are with DrRich’s timeless prose, they may experience a modicum of frustration.

As a public service, therefore, DrRich herein provides a brief compendium of selected posts from the past two years that specifically address some of the methods and practices of covert healthcare rationing.

But first, in his own defense DrRich would like to remind his readers that the specifics of covert rationing are spelled out in great detail and with great care in his book, and that, furthermore, much of that same material (for those who do not wish to support with their pocketbooks the strenuous efforts of a sincere but struggling author) is available for free on the associated website. This blog, in contrast, is designed as a venue for DrRich to offer commentary and observations that are meant to further illuminate, but that often will not explicitly spell out, that main theme.

So with that apology, here are selected posts from The Covert Rationing Blog that, more or less, directly address and illustrate covert healthcare rationing:

1) Covert Rationing As Practiced By Insurance Companies

Why Gag Clauses are Obsolete

The Practical Aspects of Fighting Confidentiality Clauses

Capitation and Ratting on Patients

2) Covert Rationing As Practiced By the Government

E & M Guidelines and Patient Care

Another Way to run Afoul of E & M Coding

Never Events? Never Mind

How to Invest in the New Medicare Audits

3) Covert Rationing Pertaining to Private Companies and to Government

Medical Home Invasion

Pay for Performance and Covert Rationing , Part One,  and Part Two

The Once Ethical Medical Profession

Doctors, Patients and Remote Third Parties

On Crying Doctors

How Covert Rationing Precludes Efficiency

Being Thankful for the Uninsured

Why Thoughtful Patients Lie to their Doctors

How to Sell Assisted Suicide

Is Treating Cancer Worth It?

On the Transcendent Importance of Retainer Medicine

Comments

One Response to “Where’s The Covert Rationing?”

  1. Sandra Brown MD on April 28th, 2009 11:50 am

    Buy the book. You will be rolling on the floor laughing at least twice (as I recall 2 particularly memorable one-liners).

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