There was never any doubt....nobody has ever addressed the root problem...cost of care.
There have been some strides in fraud management but indications of spiraling costs out there seem to point to the fact that it is still huge.
In reality the ultimate cost comes of expectation....
In 1950 nobody though twice about going to the funeral of a 65 year old.
Nowadays that is almost tantamount to going to the funeral of a kid.
We expect medicine to do more than it really can....so we invest in gizmos and substances that promise to fix this or heal that....more often than not they are just expensive snake oil remedies.
Real strides are not made in the doctor's offices or even in the hospitals but in the bio-medical-research labs where science is on the verge of producing the first human who might live to the age of Methuselah.
The current system of hospitals and pharma drugs is a bottom line corporate business not a healing process. Healing is bad for the bottom line.
JO
OMG we agree! There is hope for you yet!!
American health care is capitalism and immorality run amok. What is more evil than exploiting human suffering for obscene profits? It gets worse. Google healthcare fraud and google iatrogenic death then medical errors and then health care acquired infections and then google death from adverse drug reactions and google wrong site surgeries.
The American medical industry makes the oil and financial industries look like Boy Scouts. This vile industry is 18% of the US GDP and growing. They own the FDA and many politicians.
You may not like the solution but the solution is government run health care using the VA model. Corporate health care is a disaster and it is too far gone to fix it.
What I would do is confiscate their ill-gotten wealth using forfeiture laws. I would take over the drug companies, jail their top and middle management, and put in decent people in their position.
I would direct big pharma to actually create cures and safe treatments.
When I find that the criminal actions of the medical industry resulted in the death of any Americans the people involved will be executed publicly.
That is how we can fix health care.