Is it possible to fix the US healthcare system?
Fix pharma: price caps. Take away the massive profits that make the bribery, the revolving doors, the captive agencies possible
One problem is that there is simply too much money in the system: it sucks in about $13,000 pp/year in 2021 or 18 percent of GDP, despite the fact that outcomes are poor.
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries
Did I say poor? They are horrible, and imho it is in part because of all the money to be made in healthcare. All the incentives are wrong. If your doctor or hospital or system keeps you healthy, it goes out of business.
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/2023/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2022
Washington always sees this as a bean-counting problem, and all you need to do is throw money at it, or let the insurance industry write the laws, and we can call it good. But what if it is a professionalism problem?
The esprit de corps is gone. The spirit of the doctors and nurses has been destroyed because they are no longer allowed to do the right thing, within the system.
Tomorrow doctors like Pierre Kory, who was a champ at saving the lives of the sickest patients (and tonight is telling the CDC what it needs to do if it wants us to trust it), talk to Bobby Kennedy about what they think needs to happen.
Alternative doctors, a chiropractor, Mikki Willis and Del Bigtree (who critique medicine through film and TV) and the founder of Millions Against Mandates will share their perspective.
Personally, I think we need to make Scientific Misconduct a crime. It isn’t. You can lose your government grant if your own university finds you guilty, but they almost never do.
No one goes to jail for lies in medical journals that might lead to many deaths—in fact no one sees the inside of a courtroom, because these things are not real crimes—yet.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1747016119898400
Let’s see what everyone else has to say. Tuesday 7 pm ET June 26 (tomorrow). You have to sign up for the zoom.
https://www.kennedy24.com/health-policy-roundtable
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Morality.
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Howdy
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To answer the article question, yes it is possible, but requires a paradigm shift, from personal gain, back to caring for others. Back, to the real Human way.
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Russ D
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Nope!!! Health is not found at the end of a syringe or pill bottle. Health is found in a Plant based diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes and there is NO MONEY to be made telling patients just that. Doctors are nothing more then Pill pushers and will continue to push pills, vaccines and surgeries because that is WHERE THE MONEY IS!!!!
Medicine has it place and I believe only in emergencies, trauma, injuries and some pediatrics. When it comes to disease, it is a complete FAILURE. I know, because I’m a 13 year cancer survivor and I’m alive today because of Jesus Christ and avoiding doctors like the plague. I’m 62 and have not been to doctor in 10 years for anything and have no plans to go in the future.
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