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Doctor's Fees
Health care is one of those fundamental rights we should be able to expect as citizens of a country that concerns itself with the well-being of its citizens. Sadly, however, this is the one area that sadly lacks in providing even half of citizens with an adequate basis of health throughout their lives. Many things have been blamed for this state of the situation. At the top of the list of reasons is funding. Government simply does not have sufficient funding to provide all citizens with the health care they need. However, when considering the government's interference in the health care field, critics have increasingly questioned the wisdom and effectiveness of such effectiveness. Doctor's fees, for example, are being regulated by the government. But what are the effects of such regulation on the quality of care received? It appears that doctors whose fees are regulated fail to provide a very high quality of care in terms of their advisory relationship to patients, the removal of competition from the market, and an emphasis on government and corporate agenda rather than health care.
One interesting point in this regard is made by McClintock...
With regulated fees, doctors are removed from the autonomy of decision making that they would otherwise have. In addition, the government requirements for care discourage cultivating a personal or even advisory role with patients. Hence, doctors are overwhelmed by patients with various conditions and are increasingly pressured to merely prescribe medicine rather than provide advice on healthier lifestyles. This is one of the primary reasons for the author's premise that the government should limit its interference in the health care process itself.
Levy (2010) mentions another substantial reason for removing government regulations on doctor's fees, which relates to market competition. The point the author makes in this regard is that regulation of fees removes any sense of competition from the market. This means that there is no differentiation in quality when distinguishing between doctors. Because fees are regulated, there is no indicator of either quality…
References
Levy, T. (2010, Jul/Aug). Why Doctors Don't Want Free-Market Medicine. The Freeman., vol. 60, Iss. 6. Retrieved from: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/features/why-doctors-don%E2%80%99t-want-free-market-medicine/
McClintock Greenberg, T. (2010, Jan 29). Should the Government Regulate our Health? Huffington Post. Retrieved from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tamara-mcclintock-greenberg/should-the-government-reg_b_441493.html
Salter, B. (2000). Change in the Governance of Medicine: The Politics of Self-Regulation. In "Regulating Doctors" The Institute for the Study of Civil Society. Retrieved from: http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/cs01.pdf
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