The human body is the most complex thing in the universe by most estimates. Given that, it is apparent that you can't have a fixed way of looking at treatment. What works on me, won't work on you, so fluidity should be encouraged. Treatment should be administered by need and not by what's paid for by some plan.
While the system we have appears broken, it really is just flawed. I believe that the flaw comes from years of building in costs to handle lawsuits and other legal battles resulting from treatment. A few years ago 20/20 had a special about pediatric brain specialists all along the gulf coast getting out of the business because almost every death resulted in a law suit. A young person would be injured in a car wreck or something similar and the surgeon would do everything possible to save the child only to fail and get blamed.
Every new medicine goes through an extensive review by the FDA before it is introduced. Then after millions of doses are despised someone dies and we have class action suits everywhere. Every cure has the potential to hurt someone else. Yes it's terrible, but should we never bring another new treatment to the market? People demand better medicine and treatment at a better price, so something has to give. I lost my Dad at 54 to cancer from smoking and working in a paint booth at GM. We sued no one, he made his choices and our world was enriched while he was here with us.
The true fix to Healthcare is in Tort reform. If the FDA approves it then, law suits should not be allowed unless it is clearly subscribed in the wrong manner. If we learn that a medicine heals 1 million but hurts or kills 10 people, then the patient should be told of the risk factors and decide on his own.
Putting everything under Government control will not fix anything. With immediate tort reform, costs could be forced down. I know our Government officials on both sides of the isle are funded by these lawyers that make the big bucks on these lawsuits.
Of course if a Surgeon is grossly negligent he needs to be held accountable, but things have gotten out of hand to the point that Doctors are not doing procedures for fear of being sued. When people are dying because of the fear of a law suit, you have a big problem. The simplest of surgeries now requires a battery of tests that are largely for legal reasons. Billions of dollars are wasted running tests to comply with mal-practice issues, because of miniscule percentages that can't be avoided anyway.
I can't even imagine being a Doctor and having to refuse service based on the fact, I might get sued.
Our entire system of medical care is set up on a defensive mode of operations instead of attacking disease and illness, the way it should be.
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