Monday, February 28, 2011

Plastic Surgery: A Free Society Is a Beautiful Society - Doug French - Mises Daily

Plastic Surgery: A Free Society Is a Beautiful Society - Doug French - Mises Daily: "The typical doctor has to devote precious office square footage to files and staff working the phones continuously, dialing for reimbursements and preauthorizations from insurance companies or Medicare, because that's where the doctor receives payment. As a result, the typical doctor's office waiting room is cramped and dingy with tattered, months-old magazines lying about and a TV in the corner turned up too loud so the older patients can hear.

Cosmetic surgeons treat people like they are the ones paying the bills (because they are). The waiting rooms I've been in are clean, roomy, and serene, even though you don't spend as much time there waiting for overbooked physicians as in the paid-from-insurance doctors' offices."

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