Doctors are relatively uninformed about health care systems, outcomes research or health care economics, specifically the costs of care and cost-benefit.  Is that a critical knowledge gap?

What kind of business are practitioners, health care (HC) organizations, or including HC insurance companies in?

"Now, maybe I have a simplistic mind, but frankly I don't understand why health care and insurance companies keep appearing in the same sentences." (Fisher, W. Truthout  10/25/09)