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on Rx: Profiting from Sickness
The cost of care keeps going up in part because hospitals run like businesses. They must advertise, keep updating their equipment to attract doctors to fill their beds. Prices for procedures are set by the market. In every other country even those with "private" systems, the government sets the price for procedures like MRI scans. The invisible hand has been slapping us silly.
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on Rx: Profiting from Sickness
The for-profit model favors inequality. The best services go to those with the deepest pockets. What hasn't been mentioned is that many of our problems are interelated. This issue also ties into higher education costs as institutions seek to profit off education. Doctors and nurses cannot be blamed for wanting to make money as they can easily be enslaved by debt. This in turn can force doctors to go into specialties and away from general practice.
I really think we should socialize education and healthcare as doctors and nurses really do perform a public service.
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