SENATE BILL: Reforming Atlasian Public Health Act of 2014 (Debating)

[Deus Naturae]

To add to what Yankee said, another problem with med schools is that the accreditation system restricts the supply of physicians (and thus drives up costs) considerably. My understanding of the process is that in order to get licensed, you need to intend an accredited med school. The Federal board that does the accrediting is basically run by the AMA, so there are some obvious perverse incentives there.

And to add on to what he said about high liability costs, that's a problem not only for medical practitioners but also for medical device manufacturers. The massive penalties associated with product liability lawsuits (and under the current legal structure, manufacturers are the only ones liable for device failures/accidents) act as a massive disincentive towards developing new medical technologies, and necessarily increase the costs of existing devices.

[Deus Naturae]

Great job on making sense of all of this and coming up with a reform, but I'm curious as to what the point of the CIEP is. Why is that necessary when the ANHC plan presumably already provides coverage to those with pre-existing conditions?