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Very interesting article.
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The United States healthcare system is completely broken; it has become a huge money pit, with insurance companies, pharmaceutical corporations and greedy lawyers at the bottom filling their pockets. Mind you, I do not blame the practitioners or their staff, because they do an exceptional job, even when they are sleep deprived from working doubles.
Is our health a commodity?
Healthcare is a strange commodity. If you are starving, you can’t walk into a restaurant and demand a hamburger, and you certainly can’t walk into a steakhouse and demand a ribeye. If your water gets shut off, you can’t walk into a gym’s locker room and demand a shower and use of their shampoo.
If you can’t afford a cell phone, you can’t bust up into a Sprint store and demand to see Dan Hesse the CEO. But in healthcare, if you think you need care, regardless of actual physical acuity (severity), you can go to a hospital and they have to give you the best care they can provide, by law, and for FREE!.
11 reasons why healthcare is broken
Today I’m going to talk about 11 reasons why I think healthcare has been down in the gutter for so many years.
1. Insurance companies - In a short-sighted view, insurance rates are a big problem. They cost so much that people outside of large business plans cannot get coverage unless they’re in perfect shape, under 40, and have no family history of medical problems. Which, given that last qualifier, discounts pretty much everyone. However, simply saying insurance rates are the problem is like saying inflation is the reason things cost so much; you’re actually only describing an effect of a larger system of problems, not the problem itself........
2. Excessive regulation - Not saying all regulation is bad, but, for example, the criteria for becoming a medical practitioner is way too strict. There is no reason why I should need eight years of schooling to say, “Hey, you have an ear infection. Take this for a week.”
Probably half the nurses at most hospitals could handle a lot of the GP work that gets done, but they can’t, because the government doesn’t allow them to. When it takes a couple hundred grand in education costs to become a doctor, doctors are going to demand a $%#! Ton of compensation for their services.
When doctors demand a %@#! Ton, it drives the cost of health care up. If we opened up certain branches of healthcare to people who can do the work even without all the schooling, it would drive costs down for at least some forms of healthcare................
11 Reasons Why Our Healthcare System is So $&@%#! Up - referralMD
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The United States healthcare system is completely broken; it has become a huge money pit, with insurance companies, pharmaceutical corporations and greedy lawyers at the bottom filling their pockets. Mind you, I do not blame the practitioners or their staff, because they do an exceptional job, even when they are sleep deprived from working doubles.
Is our health a commodity?
Healthcare is a strange commodity. If you are starving, you can’t walk into a restaurant and demand a hamburger, and you certainly can’t walk into a steakhouse and demand a ribeye. If your water gets shut off, you can’t walk into a gym’s locker room and demand a shower and use of their shampoo.
If you can’t afford a cell phone, you can’t bust up into a Sprint store and demand to see Dan Hesse the CEO. But in healthcare, if you think you need care, regardless of actual physical acuity (severity), you can go to a hospital and they have to give you the best care they can provide, by law, and for FREE!.
11 reasons why healthcare is broken
Today I’m going to talk about 11 reasons why I think healthcare has been down in the gutter for so many years.
1. Insurance companies - In a short-sighted view, insurance rates are a big problem. They cost so much that people outside of large business plans cannot get coverage unless they’re in perfect shape, under 40, and have no family history of medical problems. Which, given that last qualifier, discounts pretty much everyone. However, simply saying insurance rates are the problem is like saying inflation is the reason things cost so much; you’re actually only describing an effect of a larger system of problems, not the problem itself........
2. Excessive regulation - Not saying all regulation is bad, but, for example, the criteria for becoming a medical practitioner is way too strict. There is no reason why I should need eight years of schooling to say, “Hey, you have an ear infection. Take this for a week.”
Probably half the nurses at most hospitals could handle a lot of the GP work that gets done, but they can’t, because the government doesn’t allow them to. When it takes a couple hundred grand in education costs to become a doctor, doctors are going to demand a $%#! Ton of compensation for their services.
When doctors demand a %@#! Ton, it drives the cost of health care up. If we opened up certain branches of healthcare to people who can do the work even without all the schooling, it would drive costs down for at least some forms of healthcare................
11 Reasons Why Our Healthcare System is So $&@%#! Up - referralMD