Since the very notion of rationing health care is taboo on our society, the necessary rationing must be done, and is being done, covertly - that is, without acknowledging that any rationing is occurring. C overt rationing fundamentally works by applying coercive pressure to the focal point of all health care spending, namely, the physician-patient encounter. The key to defeating covert rationing, and all the evils that flow from it, is to restore the doctor-patient relationship. In the sections that follow, we'll see how the Grand Theory explains everything going on in the health care system today . The 5-step chain of logic of the Grand Unification Theory 1.
Health care rationing is an economic imperative.
We have chosen to do the necessary rationing covertly. The final common pathway of all covert rationing is destruction of the doctor-patient relationship. The key to defeating covert rationing, and all that flows from it, is to restore the doctor-patient relationship.