The USA is exceptional in for profit performance, but the systemic problem is worldwide, not just a USA phenomena. The very name "healthcare system" tells the truth. "Healthcare" is a marketing euphemism for "for profit medical care." No one in the "healthcare" system cares about any person's health. If someone is healthy, there are no s…
The USA is exceptional in for profit performance, but the systemic problem is worldwide, not just a USA phenomena. The very name "healthcare system" tells the truth. "Healthcare" is a marketing euphemism for "for profit medical care." No one in the "healthcare" system cares about any person's health. If someone is healthy, there are no sales. In addition, the "healthcare" system has no interest in studying healthicine, the arts and sciences of health and healthiness - does not even exist. Our healthcare systems have expensive patented tools and techniques to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease, and pre-disease, but not a single tool or technique to study healthiness of diet, body, mind, spirits, communities or environments. As any doctor's advice "How healthy am I, on a percentage scale?" and the answer will be a blank stare. No ability to measure health is contemplated, much less practiced. It's not profitable. Illness, disease, and sickness are poorly defined, but can still be leveraged for profit. And finally, most important, "cured" is not medically defined and not tracked for most cases of disease, for most actual cures. No doctor, medical clinic (health clinic), hospital (health center), medical system (health system), or medical insurance (health insurance) company tracks cured cases. Why not? Few cures come from medicines. Most cures come from health. Most cures are trivial. Most cures are not profitable. Prevention and treatment with medical products are promoted - prevention, treatments, and cures by improving health and healing are is ignored.
The USA is exceptional in for profit performance, but the systemic problem is worldwide, not just a USA phenomena. The very name "healthcare system" tells the truth. "Healthcare" is a marketing euphemism for "for profit medical care." No one in the "healthcare" system cares about any person's health. If someone is healthy, there are no sales. In addition, the "healthcare" system has no interest in studying healthicine, the arts and sciences of health and healthiness - does not even exist. Our healthcare systems have expensive patented tools and techniques to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease, and pre-disease, but not a single tool or technique to study healthiness of diet, body, mind, spirits, communities or environments. As any doctor's advice "How healthy am I, on a percentage scale?" and the answer will be a blank stare. No ability to measure health is contemplated, much less practiced. It's not profitable. Illness, disease, and sickness are poorly defined, but can still be leveraged for profit. And finally, most important, "cured" is not medically defined and not tracked for most cases of disease, for most actual cures. No doctor, medical clinic (health clinic), hospital (health center), medical system (health system), or medical insurance (health insurance) company tracks cured cases. Why not? Few cures come from medicines. Most cures come from health. Most cures are trivial. Most cures are not profitable. Prevention and treatment with medical products are promoted - prevention, treatments, and cures by improving health and healing are is ignored.
I think we can all agree to your well-taken points Tracy.