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Relman: I think there are two general approaches that have to be taken. One is that government and the insurance companies and all third parties that pay for health care have to remove the perverse economic incentives that stimulate doctors to overuse medical technology. Doctors are only human and theyrespond to economic incentive just as any other human being would and the system that we now have...encourages overutilization of intensive, elaborate procedures...Any procedure that is recognized as safe and is believed to be effective is accepted by the profession and will be reimbursed. And usually the more expensive...
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