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08 Dec 2008 12:55 pm
Let The Rich Have Boob Jobs
By Patrick Appel
Saletan sees Johnson & Johnson going into the breast implant business as a warning:
...the increasing power of insurance gatekeepers and cost controls, driven by the recession, might drive some companies out of health-oriented medicine and into cosmetic procedures. The inability of middle-class people to pay for boob jobs doesn't mean providers have to shift their focus to real medicine for the middle class. Maybe they'll shift their focus instead to boob jobs for the rich.
True, the rich are a smaller market than the middle class. But if the
cost controls in real medicine are too tight, providers can make up in
profit margins what they lose in volume. So, as we're revising our
health-care system, let's try not to drive too many doctors and health
companies out of real medicine. They might have something less
important to do.
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