If you spend anytime with the medical industry you soon realize the issue.
I helped launched (the now deadpooled) Theil backed MetaMed a few years -- essentially a private research team for medicine, and what the founders taught me was astounding.
That things like amputating the wrong limbs, doctors not washing their hands and killing you by infection and a horror of other preventable errors are shocking common.
This didn't even take into consideration that things discovered in labs that might cure you take at least 30 years to reach the doctors who might implement them, if they ever do.
The distortion of hubris from doctors, economic incentives and other systemic issues results in a "health care system" that doesn't realily seem to do what it sets out to do -- we spend 10x what some developing countries do per year per person with no better outcomes.
Accute care seems to be reasonably good, fixing a broken arm, etc. (assuming they don't accidentally remove it); but chronic care is often just a pipeline for the recurring revenue model of big pharma (at best).
The examples are never ending but for fun, take a google to discover how many pap smears are performed annually on women who have already had their uterus removed - then consider the cost to insurance and tax payers.
I helped launched (the now deadpooled) Theil backed MetaMed a few years -- essentially a private research team for medicine, and what the founders taught me was astounding.
That things like amputating the wrong limbs, doctors not washing their hands and killing you by infection and a horror of other preventable errors are shocking common.
This didn't even take into consideration that things discovered in labs that might cure you take at least 30 years to reach the doctors who might implement them, if they ever do.
The distortion of hubris from doctors, economic incentives and other systemic issues results in a "health care system" that doesn't realily seem to do what it sets out to do -- we spend 10x what some developing countries do per year per person with no better outcomes.
Accute care seems to be reasonably good, fixing a broken arm, etc. (assuming they don't accidentally remove it); but chronic care is often just a pipeline for the recurring revenue model of big pharma (at best).
The examples are never ending but for fun, take a google to discover how many pap smears are performed annually on women who have already had their uterus removed - then consider the cost to insurance and tax payers.