The medical arms race

February 15, 2007

Like many states, Minnesota is experiencing out-of-control escalation in medical technology. (via Schwitzer health news blog)



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1 Greg P February 15, 2007 at 10:25 pm

One of the things I find most bothersome is that, with the larger number of MRI scanners, the larger number of indications for doing an MRI, the cost of having one done doesn’t go down, something else that flies in the face of supply and demand rules.

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