"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Welcome Back: RangelMD is back after a long absence, with lots of good posts, including this one on managed care:
Two decades later the HMOs and insurance companies have found to their horror that the massive cash flow that they initially saw in this industry is not going to change course and flow into their coffers. To make matters worse, the massively expensive bureaucracies these businesses brought with them are simply adding to the expenses as they consume up to 30 cents of every health care dollar.
