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I find it hilarious that people use the word  medical rationing as if the term hasn't existed for a billion years in medicine under the term TRIAGE.There is no excuse for the US to not have a better system of healthcare. We pay more, as a nation, for fewer covered citizens, fewer covered procedures, and worse outcomes. The ACA, for all its protections, really only entrenches a system of high-premium/high-deductible insurance that really does jack-poo poo for the average citizen. It is a staggering ethical failure for healthcare to be a for-profit industry. Hopefully Vermont will get their poo poo together so I can move for decent insurance without having to ex-patriate.
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Nessus posted:What? I think he is just highlighting the depressing fact that there is an insane amount of profit for physicians in maintaining a solid consumer base of chronically ill, but not critically ill patients. Polypharmacy is bad enough as it is, but with enormous kickbacks, it incentivizes dependencies, most physicians will treat adequately but not comprehensively. There is no financial reward in this system for good outcomes. LeeMajors fucked around with this message at 02:43 on May 12, 2014 |
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VitalSigns posted:That's why I only go to my naturopath; institutional "doctors" and "medical science" make I know you're being a smartass, but I work in healthcare and see this frequently. MOST individual doctors are not guilty of this, but it is an overall institutional flaw. Yet another reason that treating healthcare as a consumer good is ethically hosed.
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by keeping you sick. They don't want you to know the real secret to staying healthy.
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on the left posted:Other countries show us that this is 100% possible to do. American exceptionalism is so ingrained our society that everything is a 'special circumstance.' Nevermind the fact that other countries pay less for more.
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