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RE: Cancer - Wondering If The Rest of The World Is Struggling With It Like We Are in the USA
It is very sad, how much influence money has on everything including health and even science. I believe in capitalism, but something is broken, and I am not even sure I could identify exactly what. What are your thoughts on how to help get healthcare headed back in a positive direction?
I posted an article last month called "Obamacare Is Not the Problem." In that post I described how a consulting project I participated in back in 1985 led to my discovery that hospitals were changing from a cost-plus business model to a pure profit business model. This fact changed hospitals from healthcare centers to profit centers. Healthcare is now hostage to stockholder profits.
Certainly. Our brand of Capitalism lacks business ethics that reflect our supposed value of human life. That is pretty much the root of the problem, IMHO. That and contrived scarcity. OK and Classism.
This lack of business ethics is demonstrated with the hare-brained guiding principle that a corporation is solely responsible with providing profit for the shareholders, above all else. It is by this mandate that the scorched earth policies of multinationals continue unabated.
What about the market itself!?! They fail to see that they are killing their customers ... Or else they know very well exactly what they're doing - however people do not like to entertain that possibility, so we'll just leave it at that.
With Healthcare, you have large corporate entities (Demons? lol!) trying to gouge out all of the profit they can and we end up with the screwed up system we have. A system which is the laughing stock of the rest of the developed world.