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Teddy21btc's avatar

The decline of American healthcare began in 1954 when Congress decided that corporations could deduct healthcare insurance but individuals could not. Over time, the economics of that decision caused the vast majority of insurance to cover groups, not individuals.

If Congress had done the same thing with auto insurance, instead, that’s what this article would be about.

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Pat Wagner's avatar

My dad was a doctor with decades of experience as a public health officer, a family practitioner, medical school faculty, and a board-certified clinical and forensic pathologist. He held the medical establishment as described here in contempt for the reasons stated in your post, especially the insurance industry and its collusion with big pharma, the AMA, and government regulators, not always to the benefit of the patients and the patients' families and caregivers.

He taught our family to learn to take care of our own health for everyday issues and to beware new drugs and cosmetic fixes via most OTC drugs. And, to ask hard questions of our health professionals and to seek out doctors who were skeptical of the Medical Machine.

I have been able to find great docs. My criteria for a primary physician? Someone who is curious and keeps learning, who treats patients as partners, who has a sense of humor about themselves, and whose staff is loyal because treats them well.

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