A L KatzAmerica doesn't have a health CARE system. We have a health INSURANCE system. That ain't the same thing.
When anyone walks in the door, our first question isn't "How can we fix you?", it's "How're you gonna pay for this?"
That's barbaric.
hedwyg@Alan Indeed. It's complicated by the barbaric way we train doctors and the capitalist way they are expected (by insurance companies) to work.
What if we set aside the whole paradigm of "medicine" as "fixing problems"? What if, instead, medical professionals were expert consultants we established a long-term relationship?