The Expensive Medical Services Cannot Guarantee The Quality

The Expensive Medical Services Cannot Guarantee The Quality - Kathryn Phillips of the University of California and his colleagues say, the Government, insurance companies, and companies and other health authorities in making the price and quality of the need to take steps on health care more transparent to the public.

The Expensive Medical Services Cannot Guarantee The Quality

"It's really important to know how people looked at the relationship between price and quality. For most products, relationships between price and quality is indeed true, so people assume this also applies to health care, "said Phillips.

"Unfortunately, the majority of respondents to a national survey in America said, the price and the quality of health services provided are not related."

The Expensive Medical Services Cannot Guarantee The Quality

71 percent of respondents said, higher prices generally were not always followed up with better care. But 30 percent more thinking, doctors will probably provide less quality service when they are paid less than other doctors.

People who have compared the price of health care in the past are more likely to see the relationship between price and quality rather than those who don't.

"Many organizations are currently developing information that exposes the price of health care for consumers. However, we need to develop the right policies and tools so that consumers use this information appropriately, "said Phillips.

These results might help the perpetrators of medical information in price and quality with the right ways for consumers, said Phillips. (source:reuters.com)