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You can grow your own food. You can't perform your own cataract surgery and you can't make your own vaccines. As to your analogy, yes, the root cause of the
by saulpw 11mo ago
You can grow your own food. You can't perform your own cataract surgery and you
can't make your own vaccines.
As to your analogy, yes, the root cause of the infection is bacteria. Yes, there are supporting factors, like the open wound that allowed the bacteria in, or a weakened immune system that allowed it to flourish. But when you're treating an infection that's already out of control, you focus on eradicating the bacteria. You also clean the wound and boost the immune system if possible, but those are secondary measures.
In the case of healthcare, "for-profit" is the root cause. There will still be corruption and capture and psycho nurses, but those are wounds that can be fixed or suffered one at a time. Whereas the for-profit aspect of healthcare is a metastasized cancer that no amount of surgery can cure. We might need all kinds of treatments but we have to address the root cause as well.
- mindslight 11mo agoDo you see the ability to grow your own food as being a strong check on grocery prices? To me, it's the many competing grocery stores, a few or even many different brands in each, and prices labeled up front. If anything, healthcare seems easier to go your own way - simply by going without. Also can we agree that one of the main reasons doctors go to work every day is for the paycheck? That's a form of profit, right? (And I'm certainly not making this argument to inductively argue that all profit is good! In fact, like bacteria, outsized profits call attention to where the system has problems. But we do need to get the boundary conditions correct)