首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The health-care economy is filled with unusual and even unique economic relationships. One of the least understood involves the
The health-care economy is filled with unusual and even unique economic relationships. One of the least understood involves the
admin
2019-06-23
43
问题
The health-care economy is filled with unusual and even unique economic relationships. One of the least understood involves the peculiar roles of producer or "provider" and purchaser or "consumer" in the typical doctor-patient relationship. In most sectors of the economy, it is the seller who attempts to attract a potential buyer with various inducements of price, quality, and utility, and it is the buyer who makes the decision. Such condition, however, does not prevail in most of the health-care industry. In the health-care industry, the doctor-patient relationship is the mirror image of the ordinary relationship between producer and consumer. Once an individual has chosen to see a physician—and even then there may be no real choice—it is the physician who usually makes all significant purchasing decisions: whether the patient should return "next Wednesday", whether X-rays are needed, whether drugs should be prescribed, etc. It is a rare and sophisticated patient who will challenge such professional decisions or raise in advance questions about price, especially when the disease is regarded as serious.
This is particularly significant in relation to hospital care. The physician must certify the need for hospitalization, determine what procedures will be performed, and announce when the patient may be discharged. The patient may be consulted about some of these decisions, but in the main it is the doctor’s judgments that are final. Little wonder then that in the eye of the hospital it is the physician who is the real "consumer." As a consequence, the medical staff represents the "power center" in hospital policy and decision-making, not the administration.
Although usually there are in this situation four identifiable participants—the physician, the hospital, the patient, and the payer(generally an insurance carrier or government)—the physician makes the essential decisions for all of them. The hospital becomes an extension of the physician; the payer generally meets most of the bills generated by the physician/hospital, and for the most part the patient plays a passive role. We estimate that about 75-80 percent of health-care expenditures are determined by physicians, not patients. For this reason, the economy directed at patients or the general is relatively ineffective.
What’s the author’s main purpose in writing this passage?
选项
A、To criticize doctors for exercising too much control over patients.
B、To analyze some important economic factors in health-care.
C、To urge hospitals to reclaim their decision-making authority.
D、To inform potential patients of their health-care rights.
答案
B
解析
文章首段表明本文将要讨论卫生保健行业中医生和病人的特殊经济关系,其余三段分析了这种经济关系的特别之处,由此可见,选项B可以概括本文主题,故为本题答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/SxX7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Totestthestrengthofafriendship.B、Tobringfriendsevencloser.C、Toknowmorepeoplewhoareinneed.D、Tomakeyourfr
A、Noonewantstolookatthecloset.B、Themanhasalreadycleaneditup.C、Ithasgraduallybecomeatrashcan.D、Itisoccupi
TheIndustrialRevolution[A]TheIndustrialRevolutionisthenamegiventothemassivesocial,economic,andtechnologicalcha
Secondhandsmokeisaccountablefor42,000deathsannuallytononsmokersintheUnitedStates,includingnearly900infants,acc
VideogameshavebecomeincreasinglypopularinbotharcadesandtheaverageAmericanhome.Peopleofallagesandfromallwalk
Theincreaseinglobaltrademeansthatinternationalcompaniescannotaffordtomakecostlyadvertisingmistakesiftheywantt
A、Becausehismotherwantedhimtobeachef.B、Becausehistwograndmothersloveddeliciousfood.C、Becausehewouldliketodo
Mathematicalabilityandmusicalabilitymaynotseemonthesurfacetobeconnected,butpeoplewhohaveresearchedthesubject
In1915EinsteinmadeatriptoGottingentogivesomelecturesattheinvitationofthemathematicalphysicistDavidHilbert.H
In1915EinsteinmadeatriptoGottingentogivesomelecturesattheinvitationofthemathematicalphysicistDavidHilbert.H
随机试题
行政职能首先表现为【】
护理体检内容不包括
女性,32岁。较长期用药治疗后发现有浮肿、乏力、血压偏高。停药后,全身更加不适,肌无力、低血糖、血压偏低等情况,患者停用的是
虚劳病的基本病机为汗证的基本病机为
A、《神农本草经》B、《新修本草》C、《证类本草》D、《本草纲目》E、《植物名实图考》世界上最早的具有药典性质的本草是
自事故(非交通、火灾事故)发生()日内,事故造成的伤亡人数发生变化的,应及时补报。
下列对职工的分组,属于按数量标志分组的是()。
影响企业现金流量的因素包括()。
下列选项中说法正确的有()。
分析各个对象在物流市场中所占的份额,并提出对应不同对象的战略和策略方案的分析方法,称为时间结构分析。()
最新回复
(
0
)