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Health care and education are IMO the next two major car wrecks coming for America. Both are like patients with similar symptoms (indicative of the general disease of America.)

- They treat the customers like replaceable widgets

- Costs are spiraling out of control. ($2-3000/day hospital, $3.4 TRILLION in total health spending [this equals the entire federal budget])

- Doctors / teachers often don't seem to communicate / care. (Friend's mother was recently in hospital, multiple doctors thru a single day, each one had to completely relearn what was going on.)

- The infrastructure systems are counter motivated (hospitals, drug companies, ect.. are profit not care motivated corps w/ "high" administrative overhead, schools are often public, yet view students as revenue and spend large amounts on noneducational costs to attract "talent". [$500k-$1.5M admin salaries])

No wonder many just want to self educate these days, and their health would be about as well served going to a shaman who cared about them.

parent araes 8 years ago

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