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RE: Healthcare: Effectiveness vs Socialism and Communism
some thoughts
- who's going to pay for it?
- genetic engineering.
- why do we NEED a 'health care SYSTEM? Why not many, many, MANY individual family doctors? Widely Distributed, Massively Parallel, Hugely Redundant...Health Care?
Note: my 'personal physician of many years...quit. He changed his practice from general medicine to trauma. Emergency room and 'after hours'.
Guess why?
If you said 'too many rules' you'd be right.
Funbobby's been wondering where you've been, he's was speculating on who may have powered down during the down turn of steem.
I have been otherwise occupied.
It's merely coincidental that while I was busy doing other stuff the 'down turn' happened.
I suppose Steemit just can't get along without me?
well....at least funbobby...lol, better give him a holler your back.
I would like to chime in on your third bullet point: specialization. Not just in the specialty of the doctor, but also in the vast amount of medical equipment. Your distributed solution is a good starting point, but without central hubs for specialists and advanced equipment, we are going to go back 80 years in technology. No doctor would be able to afford a CT Scan, MRI, or operating room in their offices. No doctor can be expected to be an expert on every field of medicine.
So, you start building those centralized places, and all the expensive big ticket consults and procedures move there. Everything will inevitably follow the money to these profit centers and away from your family doctor's office until you're stuck with... something that looks a lot like what we have today.
People want 2018 healthcare at 1968 prices. Sure we can cut some red tape here and there, but that's never going to appreciably change a thing.
how much does an MRI machine cost today?
how much did one cost ten years ago?
I tried to look this up but the pricing info (as with most major capital expenditures) is very difficult to find and MSRP info isn’t generally published.
That said, I did find this, which is quite interesting and enlightening. http://time.com/money/2995166/why-does-mri-cost-so-much/
The biggest takeaway is that regardless of the model you buy, you’d still need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the room to house it in. Not to mention the salary of the staff to run the machine.
MRI prices fall sharply in markets outside U.S.
odd that..
A lot has changed since 1991, but that is interesting that even back then the US was more expensive than elsewhere in the world.