It would still be the job of the new single payer to crack down -- not on consumer overutilization but on rampant profiteering and plain old corruption (doctors referring patients .
There is overutilization here, pure and simple.
Perhaps an even more pressing problem in the context of health reform is the risk of overutilization of services.
Max Baucus in Wall Street Journal We've got to start going down this road and addressing overutilization,said Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.