Dr. David Shulkin
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 27 Nov
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Just try to follow an explanation of benefits that you get from any medical service that you have.
And I don't know anybody who really understands them.
So I understand the simplistic nature of trying to cut the middleman out and give money directly to people to let them
have control over where they spend it.
But the complexity of the current system, that's not really going to solve the problem because people are still going to need their insurance plans and people are still going to see these types of cost increases.
So unless you went to a
full system of where money is given, the full premium dollar is given to consumers.
Consumers have the right information, the transparency of cost and quality data that they could make those decisions.
I don't think you're going to see this as a solution that really begins to impact the basic issue of affordability and fragmentation in our system.
But the idea of
is not a bad one the idea of giving the consumer more control the idea of providing the patient with the information to be able to make decisions and frankly for the patient to have some skin in the game in terms of how they're spending their money and the accountability for that money those are all good ideas
And so if this is a way to start out, I'd say, you know, I would, you know, in some ways be optimistic about the start.
But if it's viewed as we've now fixed the health care problem, I think that's going to be oversimplification.
Yeah.
So first of all, I think you do have an accurate reflection of what the health services research data has shown, which is that even given information, patients have been reluctant to rely upon the system that they have forever, which is asking your friends and family where they would go if they were sick and have been reluctant to actually use the data.
But I would say it's actually a flawed system.
that we're using of whether consumers and patients actually want this information.
That without the financial accountability, it's really hard to ask people to seriously use this information.
That, in other words, people who have been studied, whether they are making choices about quality data and volume data,
are doing this through their insurance plans and so therefore are shielded from the financial decisions.
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