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Catch ‘diabetic retinopathy’ young Sunday March 12 2006 10:32 IST KOZHIKODE: Catch them young, says the medical fraternity.

But wait, the aim is not to pave way for a smooth development but to thwart their progression.

Diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes, has turned out to be of great concern in a country, which by 2020 would house half the world’s diabetic population.

“To make things worse, awareness on this leading cause of blindness is almost nil,” says Dr Shermila M V, the vitreo retinal consul...

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...What's the explanation?

Simple, when people are paying their own bills, the market works.

Quality goes up and prices come down.

But when government interferes with the market - either by directly paying for health care or by engaging in industrial policy for health care through the tax code - consumers begin to disregard prices and the market becomes very inefficient: Take a look at the latest headlines - or at your insurance premiums - and it's hard to escape the conclusion that health-care prices move in only one direction: up.

But why should this be the case?

After all, prices for many other goods and services have fallen over time as technology and productivity have improved.

One leading theory on health-care inflation suggests that part of the problem is that consumers don't generally spend their own money on health care.

Rather, it's paid for by "third parties" - either by insurance paid by employers or by the government - giving individuals little incentive to pay attention to price.

And giving doctors and hospitals little incentive to be clear about either price or quality.

…Some answers can be found by looking at the market for medical procedures that aren't usually covered by insurance today.

Take cosmetic surgery and dentistry, both widely used and available.

Plenty of consumer satisfaction and no cost crisis there.

Another good example is LASIK, the revolutionary laser surgery that ove...