Correct. It has to be rebuilt starting with the education. Medicine must be rethought and the stranglehold removed concerning other modalities of actual healing. There is a place for aspects of our allopathic medical system such as in acute care. If I am in an severe accident, don't take me to the chiropractor - take me to the trauma center. After they are done putting humpty dumpty back together, then I will seek out other care that is less allopathic and can help facilitate healing. The problem, as always, is going to be finding a way to pay for decent health care. We are going to have start from scratch and think outside of the box. Removing it from the hands of profit driven corporate care will be a good place to start. Getting rid of that huge bureaucracy of bean counters will definitely lower costs.
Ideally health care plans shouldn't really be needed. I would love to see some of the electrical costs each of these MRI machines use, personally. I want to see some rational justification for the cost of important diagnosis tools.
I'm cool with doctors making bank, but I'm not cool with hospital systems labeling themselves as "non profit" so they can endlessly merge with each other, give directors endless bonuses and over expand without fear because they're considered too big to fail and get bailed out from their over extension.
When hospitals started merging together and removed control from the local community hospital run by local doctors, that is when it started to go off the rails. Yes there is a need for larger medical centers to handle trauma, but some stuff can be better managed at the local hospital. You are right in that bureaucracy has significantly added to the cost. Insurance also has been a huge driver since patients have no idea what the costs of their medical care really are. There needs to be competition so patients can shop it around.
The elephant in the room is that most Americans are sicker than we ever have been. Poor diets and bad lifestyles along with traditional pharma driven care has made this problem. It really is not going to change until the people themselves demand better.
Correct. It has to be rebuilt starting with the education. Medicine must be rethought and the stranglehold removed concerning other modalities of actual healing. There is a place for aspects of our allopathic medical system such as in acute care. If I am in an severe accident, don't take me to the chiropractor - take me to the trauma center. After they are done putting humpty dumpty back together, then I will seek out other care that is less allopathic and can help facilitate healing. The problem, as always, is going to be finding a way to pay for decent health care. We are going to have start from scratch and think outside of the box. Removing it from the hands of profit driven corporate care will be a good place to start. Getting rid of that huge bureaucracy of bean counters will definitely lower costs.
Ideally health care plans shouldn't really be needed. I would love to see some of the electrical costs each of these MRI machines use, personally. I want to see some rational justification for the cost of important diagnosis tools.
I'm cool with doctors making bank, but I'm not cool with hospital systems labeling themselves as "non profit" so they can endlessly merge with each other, give directors endless bonuses and over expand without fear because they're considered too big to fail and get bailed out from their over extension.
When hospitals started merging together and removed control from the local community hospital run by local doctors, that is when it started to go off the rails. Yes there is a need for larger medical centers to handle trauma, but some stuff can be better managed at the local hospital. You are right in that bureaucracy has significantly added to the cost. Insurance also has been a huge driver since patients have no idea what the costs of their medical care really are. There needs to be competition so patients can shop it around.
The elephant in the room is that most Americans are sicker than we ever have been. Poor diets and bad lifestyles along with traditional pharma driven care has made this problem. It really is not going to change until the people themselves demand better.