It’s probably going to take much more than that.
A future medical administrator observes that we’ve “entered an era of diffusing responsibility that is having an extraordinary impact on our health,” and that the current measures to increase consumerism in medicine isn’t working.
No amount of government money along would solve our problems, since “we can’t create more years of life when we reach the unhealthy point of no return.”
We need a fundamental shift in our lifestyle. Printing money alone isn’t enough.
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Even more fundamentally, patient/customers are going to have to take on individual responsibility for maintaining their health, with or without ‘help’ from the insurance cartels or government mandates. In medicine, like all other activities, there are no free lunches. When this happens then the current entiitlement mentaility can be replaced with real insurance.
Chuck Brooks
FutureWare SCG
If more money was a cure for what ails American medicine, then American medicine would have no ills, as it is by far the most generously funded healthcare system in the world. In fact, one could logically conclude that some of it’s ills are diseases of affluence which have fostered dysfunctional attitudes and wasteful practices.
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