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Linda Hagge's avatar

Best fix: No corporate hospitals or clinics. Independent doctors only, with public references. No CEOs or other non-medical administrators. Complete public disclosure of costs for both hospitals and more minor procedures.

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Linda Hagge's avatar

And no more "for profit" hospitals. The very idea of a "for profit" hospital is obscene.

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Beckie Takacs's avatar

Originally, hospitals were for the poor who could not afford care.

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anti-republocrat's avatar

Yes. Single insurer through the 50 states. Fuck CMS. States allowed to contract through competitive payment systems (CMS, BCBS, Humana or any other administrator interested in the business). State laws prohibiting the payers from dictating protocols to providers. (Ie, no "death panels.")

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Beckie Takacs's avatar

Absolutely!!!

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

Dr. Malone thank you for writing this and sorry for blasting your comments section with my links. This was just too perfect. You are so good at explaining the problem - one which I have recognized for almost a decade now. So lately I have been working with a think tank of like minded people thinking about solutions. And we have been tackling this problem with several recent articles. We are trying to discuss what can we do to fight back that is both VERY EFFECTIVE and SAFE. No one wants violence if possible. But governments and power structures tend to get violent when attacked.

So we have a plan that we believe will work: radical transparency and decentralization. We don't need government's permission. All we need is some open sourced tech built and a new agreement between all people that focuses on one thing - our biggest issue: ENDING CORRUPTION IN THE SYSTEMS THAT GOVERN OUR LIVES.

All of our problems are because we are running our software on a bad system. It just needs a few tweaks, and the system can be great again.

If this interests you or anyone else at all I beg you to at least read some of the ideas. To change this we will need a movement. Either that or we can just sit here and wait for everyone else to save us.

#TransparencyMovement

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/what-we-need-is-a-transparency-movement

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The Society of Problem Solvers's avatar

Dr. Malone thank you for writing this and sorry for blasting your comments section with my links. This was just too perfect. You are so good at explaining the problem - one which I have recognized for almost a decade now. So lately I have been working with a think tank of like minded people thinking about solutions. And we have been tackling this problem with several recent articles. We are trying to discuss what can we do to fight back that is both VERY EFFECTIVE and SAFE. No one wants violence if possible. But governments and power structures tend to get violent when attacked.

So we have a plan that we believe will work: radical transparency and decentralization. We don't need government's permission. All we need is some open sourced tech built and a new agreement between all people that focuses on one thing - our biggest issue: ENDING CORRUPTION IN THE SYSTEMS THAT GOVERN OUR LIVES.

All of our problems are because we are running our software on a bad system. It just needs a few tweaks, and the system can be great again.

If this interests you or anyone else at all I beg you to at least read some of the ideas. To change this we will need a movement. Either that or we can just sit here and wait for everyone else to save us.

#TransparencyMovement

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/what-we-need-is-a-transparency-movement

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JB's avatar

My husband was in the hospital and I had an itch on my arm (from trapping cats in the brush) and I asked a nurse for some H2O2. She said they didn't have that. I asked for some -OH. She said they didn't have that either. (WT...?). She then said she had some anti-itch cream (pharmaceutical), but she couldn't give it to me because I wasn't a patient.

What is wrong with this picture? Other than that we began the story with being IN the hospital in the first place.

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Science is Political 2.0's avatar

The nurse didn't know what hydrogen peroxide was.. happens all the time.. YEP.

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Linda Hagge's avatar

Beautifully said.

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JB's avatar

That being said, we should start with getting rid of the Federal Government.

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