Health care

May 5th

Today I spoke with a MD working for Kaiser Permanente, which is a HMO. When you are insured by Kaiser, you will be treated in hospitals and by MD's working for Kaiser. Th e HMO is well known for its quality and is less expensive than other forms of insurance.
Problems that we encounter in medicine in the Netherlands, are often the same problems as in the USA: the increase in the number of patients that turn towards alternative healers and the externalisation of all kind of problems. The fact that malpractice lawsuits are so common, is possibly partly explained by the fact that it is believed that everything has a cause and could have been avoided if somebody had made a different choice....To give an example, if your child is diagnsoed with autism at the age of 6 years, many people believe that it is not fate, but more likely the fact that complications occurred during the delivery. As a consequence, the MD is sued. Could this be the reason for the high number of C-sections: to prevent complications during a vaginal delivery?