Länk - Görs rätt medicinska åtgärder i sjukvården i USA?
Surgeons don't do spinal fusions because they're evil and avaricious. They do them because they want to help people; surgery is the way they know how to help people; they are sometimes not terribly good at reading data; and they are, like mutual fund managers and almost everyone else, convinced that even if spinal fusions don't work on average, they can beat the averages. For whatever reason, neither American culture nor the market are providing checks on these bad behaviours--and before you start saying "This is why we need single payer", neither is the government that pays for so many of these treatments.
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