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Standard practice or not, it still just seems wrong to me - maybe that's just the part of me that believes that healthcare shouldn't be treated as a business.
by NTripleOne 10y ago
Standard practice or not, it still just seems wrong to me - maybe that's just the part of me that believes that healthcare shouldn't be treated as a business.
- dogma1138 10y agoHealthcare should very much be treated as a business since we have limited resources, you need to focus your resources where they would do the most good if not you will not like the results as everyone will walk around with perfect boobs and teeth but will die at 40. You are more than welcomed to go and check into the lowest ranked hospitals in your country when you'll get ill, if not then it's a pointless argument at the end regardless of how well you think you equalize your system it will always have better and lesser hospitals. In fact centralization of talent and resources has a positive outcome rather than a negative one since it doesn't have a major downside but a huge upside. It's considerably better to have 90 average hospitals and 10 great ones than to have 100 average hospitals since in the 10% of the cases when a great hospital, doctor or surgeon is needed you will still have a place to go. There is no real way of assembling an all star surgical team in every hospital in the city, not to mention a nation, so even if you would want to forcibly spread doctors (and there were a few countries that tried) and prevent private funds the only thing you get is a worse healthcare system not a better one.