As we can observe from the data above, many doctors are simply not qualified to to make the decisions they make (be it for immoral hazard or lack of training). Certainly some are qualified, but to see a doctor recommend a course of preventative treatment while foregoing prescription revenue and follow up visit revenue is nearly unheard of. Paying a doctor if your treatment is successful would help correct the immoral hazard, but have you ever had a doctor offer you such a proposition? More likely they make sure you have some money left in your property assets before they help move you to palliative care to make sure your inheritance to your children has been wiped out. If this angers a physician, take the other side and only pay yourself if your patient improves from a standard you both agree upon. Such a proposition would be viewed as welcome from your patients.
Assuming physicians won’t be part of the solution (which we welcome them being part of the solution), a viable solution is insurance with biometric testing to provide incentives for holistic health performance. While people don’t follow diets, they do perform for money.
Our solutions with CirclesX Health provide such incentivized solutions and the technology to assist in the search and delivery of food to help the body heal. We help align dietary, exercise, sleep, walking patterns with health outcomes that will target “Foodie Body Zone” Membership rewards.
While we are not adverse to science based medicine backed by independent data proving a superior outcome to preventative care, it is the responsibility of the physician to present this to the patient with indpendent data, not because the pharma rep brought lunch or reviewed a study by the seller which has not been vetted by independent peers.