Here’s an example of the type of consumerism we don’t want in healthcare. From an article in last week’s New York Times titled “In Sour Economy, Some Scale Back on Medications.”
“‘People are having to choose between gas, meals and medication,’ said Dr. James King, the chairman of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a national professional group. He also runs his own family practice in rural Selmer, Tenn. ‘I’ve seen patients today who said they stopped taking their Lipitor, their cholesterol-lowering medicine, because they can’t afford it….I have patients who have stopped taking their osteoporosis medication.’”
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