For whose benefit? Speaking generally [1], as a patient in the U.S., I no longer believe it is for my (i.e. the patient's) benefit. This is the result of both

For whose benefit? Speaking generally [1], as a patient in the U.S., I no longer believe it is for my (i.e. the patient's) benefit. This is the result of both reporting on the health care landscape that I've digested as well as repeated personal experience. The U.S. system is, at scale, profit-driven. Profit in general serves a purpose; however, in the U.S., it has superseded that of providing effective health care. In other words, in the U.S., it has become solely about short-term, private profit. Public good and longer term, societal benefit have been relegated to imagery. -- 1. meaning not as someone having the specific condition under consideration