It occurred to me today that western medicine can actually be fixed without bringing the whole system down. Any president could do this, if they really cared to.

All it would take is placing a separation in the medical industry between Curing and Treating.

Kind of like the checks & balances we have in congress, Companies have to declare themselves a Cure company or a Treatment company. Doctors would then have access to a separate department of medicine, all about curing each problem, that they would be able to check first for all their patients, before moving on to the treatments, which seem to be the only courses of action they ever take today. -In no small part due to the fact that it's far more profitable to do it that way.

This would not only place accountability over doctors (i.e. they could be sued for not issuing a cure when one exists) but it would also, and more importantly, give the branch of medicine specifically designed to cure us of our maladies the room to grow without having their budgets ransancked & sent over to treatments instead.