so fucked up that the healthcare industry has become all about treating instead of curing🫠
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It's not about treating at all, it's entirely about billing.
There is no healthcare in the US. There is only a market for the insurance industry and for the hospital systems.
So when you go to Urgent Care, you're seeing an imaginary doctor? I'd certainly agree with you if we were arguing about the pharmaceutical industry not really working to cure people. They hasn't been a new cure in a drug in a long time. It's more like keep you sick enough to try the next version of the same thing
rare to find a doctor that isn’t just a pill pusher these days unfortunately
When the insurance industry forces a doctor to limit himself to 8 minutes with a patient, it’s hard to do much more than prescribe a pill. Doctors mean well. They are victims of the financialization of their industry in the same way as most others are. A push to faster and cheaper at the expense of better. That means greater profits for the insurance and hospital conglomerates. That’s called capitalism.
I asked my Dr once why he didn't start up a Concierge Practice? He said he would be able to have roughly 300 to 400 patients. He didn't know what he'd do with the other 5000!!! I think free market competition is the answer. Why is it some medical procedures have gotten cheaper over the years?
There is no free market. The norm now is for hospital systems to come into private practices and give them a choice. Either sell the practice to the University system, or lose hospital privileges. A primary care doctor without hospital privileges is dead in the water. That’s not a free market. That’s big Capital gobbling up the remnants of free enterprise.