Health care economics: Diseases are too profitable to prevent or cure
I thought this was an interesting article I saw it on Geraldine’s blog.
A coworker and I were talking about the same thing early this morning.
Health care economics: Diseases are too profitable to prevent or cure
Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 by Mike Adams, Key concepts: doctors, health care and drug companies.
There’s something seriously wrong with our modern system of healthcare in the United States and in Western countries, but this article’s not what you might think — it’s not about the obvious things that are wrong. This is about something much larger. Let’s take a look from a large, top-down view. In fact, I’m going to challenge the assumption that we should have disease-oriented doctors at all. I think the whole diseased-focused model of health care we have today is part of the problem.
