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RE: Curing Disease is Bad for Business.
i wonder for a long why there was still a dentist drilling my teeth, like hundreds of years ago. Why can't we have good medicine against all the dental diseases? Well, there are a lot of jobs on the line.
I am not sure how to tackle the problem, because I think the libertarian argument that a certain extend of health care is luxury is also true.
My solution would be a free emergency protection. I do not want to live in a place where people bleed to death in the streets, just because they got no insurance. However a lot of medical treatments should be seen as a service, that anyone can over. The doctors always claiming to live up to their oath while saying all alternative treatments are a scam is the most hillarious and sad thing about it.
Hippocratic Oath is no longer required by med school student to swear to or understand. This is the main reason why medicine in America is degrading.
I commend my professor for challenging me to understand the oath in med school!
You can't spell Hippocratic without hypocrite though, wait... you can... nevermind.
Thank you, @thatgermandude, both for the up-vote as well as this solid comment. :c)
Indeed I too have wondered that. I have also wondered at whether the simple process of brushing teeth isn't actually scrubbing away more than the enamel-eating elements but also any inert layer upon the teeth that serves to protect it - and which is also totally destroyed by dentists' drill-cleaning practices.
A healthy set of teeth is not a profitable thing. I kind of compare it to a less-than-honest vehicle mechanic who sort of fixes one thing in your car while either deliberately ignoring that another part of your car is going to eventually fail - or worse - acting to bring such about. Its more profitable to fix a car over three visits than a single one.
The same is true for dentists. Fortunately the worst offenders who will think little of pulling or deliberately damaging and sabotaging perfectly healthy teeth can and do eventually get caught - but thanks to the aura and status, most cannot be called out upon just as one couldn't call out the mechanic for loosening a timing belt or some-such. More instances are gotten away with than not.
Your idea for solution is very interesting - and such would require that some funds be allocated from a nation's budget towards such cases.
That being said a couple of the issues that I foresee with free emergency protection is that such both encourages people to wait until something 'is' an emergency - and it also can result in a fostered sense of entitlement. Its similar to what happens here - except that free care is extended beyond emergencies in the State facilities - and yes - some people opt for such who can really afford paid care - unnecessarily burdening the system.
To base upon your suggestion, I would suggest that post-procedure credit always be an option (to try and avoid a situation where one won't be treated unless they have their insurance papers all sorted - as well as a pre-established means of payment).
I would also propose that State structures require pharmaceutical companies that offer medications above certain price points undergo vetting processes of varying degrees of complexity to ensure that their product is sold within a given nation (small nations may partner up with other nations to unify this process).
Such vetting would include an effective audit and price justification - as well as an identification and analysis of generic alternatives and equivalents.
In this way the profit motive may be balanced against state motives - and part of the justification for these processes would be determining and justifying government subsidy (but never nullification) of treatment costs.
Yes - I am aware that this includes a fair bit of wishful thinking on my part. ;c)
Thank you again!
ahhh, i missed your reply, but i gtg. Can you make a dummy reply to this so I got you on top of my replies and remember to answer? There are a few things I wanna add and healthcare is kind of an important topic ;).
Source - A Dummy Contemplates
Healthcare can be kind of a life and death matter...
...so yes... it is kind of important. ^_~
Looking forward to your response.
hehe,
I don't like this because this smells a lot like government and pharma corp coming together to see how much money they can drain from the consumer. I also think this is exactly how it is done in Germany, where pharmaceuticals are admittedly not as expensive as in the states.
I think it is important to see healthcare as two different things. Emergency and healthcare. I understand your resentment, in a way it incentivies taking less care of yourself and wait until you cannot stand anymore. However I do think that some preventive measures like Vaccines and preventive Operations (Cancer) are overrated. You can make a lot of money selling preventives for things the patient might face, especially when you claim that you are not doing it for profit.
I do think by ensuring that the emergency doctors are well trained experts who actually have your health as highest priority, would open up the free market for all kinds of alternative treatments that might prove more effective than classic medicin.