Your health isn’t one-size-fits-all, and it shouldn’t have to be. Concierge medicine is not just about preventing illness, it’s about personalized healthcare that caters to you, the individual. The healthcare reform bill that is being tossed around is a sharp turn away from personalized medicine, directly into dark and disturbing territory.

The federal government’s push to control health costs through “comparative effectiveness” research could threaten advances in personalized medicine, in which treatments are individualized to each patient. – Forbes.com

Forbes talks about how a team of political men will be assembled to run studies and do research upon different treatments and procedures. In some cases, the treatments that do not perform well will no longer be allowed. The decision making that a concierge physician makes every day; the ones that are personalized to each individual patient, are at odds with the broad approach of healthcare reform.

“If there’s a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that’s going to make you well?” But patients and their ailments vary, so the choice is rarely that easy. –Forbes.com

Sure, doing the needed research to find out what, of the billions, treatments actually work and what are a waste of time and money. But, how do you even began to run that research when each individual patient has a different response to treatment, different allergies to drugs, different physiologies, and different side effects. There just isn’t a way to run a scientific study, with the needed homogenious study group, that represents the entirety of our American population. We are far too unique to be catagorized.

Hypothetically, the research group could find a treatment that saved your daughter’s life unnecessary because it didn’t produce results within the study. That is what many are worried about when it comes to healthcare reform. What works for some may not work for others.

It’s for this reason, and many others, that personalized medicine and concierge doctors and popping up all over the nation. Patients want individualized care; the kind of care that actually takes into account each person’s unique physiology and family history. This kind of healthcare checks your allergies and drug responses before prescribing you something that reacts with another drug.    

Perhaps this approach towards healthcare reform will save some money by eliminating certain procedures. But truly, in the long run when patients are needing extra care because certain treatments aren’t available anymore, it will cost us all a whole lot more. Not to mention the lack of innovation and invention of new and more effective drugs that will occur due to this healthcare reform bill.

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