I've put some thought into US healthcare practices, and when I ask other people about what they think of the healthcare problem, most don't realize there is one (usually kids on their parents plan) or default to blaming the insurance companies. Blaming insurance companies for rising premiums has become a cliche, so much so that it blinds us to the true culprits of medicine. The practitioners themselves. That's right. I want to hold doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals directly accountable here.
When we look at the cost of healthcare, we have to examine the need for health insurance in the first place. Why do you have health insurance? The reason is because if you did not, you could never afford your medical bills. That statement alone should tell you something.
Healthcare is too damn expensive for most of the population to pay out of pocket. (Go ahead and try to argue with me on this one)
Why is it so expensive though? Truth be told, doctor salaries and profit. Private practice doctors, which comprise of doctors that are not employed by hospitals, the US government, or other forms of employment, instead work for themselves (or in partnerships). They typically bill their clients directly. The entire basis of healthcare being expensive, however, is that for doctors to get paid people must be ill or injured. This, quite literally, is profiting off of people's physical suffering.
I'm not trying to convince you that doctors should not get paid. What I am saying is that doctors are overpaid. Way overpaid. Doctor salaries in America are higher, even when adjusted for purchasing power for each country.
https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2...ountries-make/
(As a side question, do you guys consider NYT to be fake news?)
Now this is the hard part to explain. Try to open your mind to this concept. The most common defense for high salaries is their immense school costs. True. Schooling for medical professionals is insanely expensive these days. Medical school tuition, books, equipment, etc can run upwards of $60,000 per year. One thing people don't look at though, is why a doctor in America has to have a Bachelors degree before he gets his medical degree. Doesn't make sense, does it? In almost every other country in the entire world you can go straight from high school to medical school.
https://www.usnews.com/education/bes...fers-tradeoffs
You could get a degree in literally ANY subject on this earth for your undergraduate. ANYTHING. Even art. That alone tells me that the bachelors degree, by default, is arbitrary. Many schools go on to require 1 year in English, 1 year in Math, and 1 years worth of classes in Biology.
We are talking about 3 subjects. You could take these 3 subjects (6 classes in total), and easily do them in 2 semesters, thus completing the 1 year requirement. So then, what is the point of the other 3 years?
I'll add the conspiracy part later just to see if anyone has even read this first bit.
