I believe we do not have a "Health" care system, we have a "Sickness" care system. The goals and incentives are designed to keep people functioning while requiring continual medication. It's very similar to a drug dealer with his users, keep them from OD'ing, but needing their next fix. I would like to see a large focus of this be on preventative care and natural treatments.
A system similar to Steemit with reputation and user rating would decrease the need for the exorbitant levels of malpractice doctors, surgeons and hospitals need to carry. It would reward the good doctors and weed out the bad ones.
I look forward to following your progress.
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
You hit the nail on the head, @swenger. The core mission of Citizen Health is to keep people healthy. I think everyone is too concerned with the 'care' part of health. How about we focus on getting our bodies to a point where we don't need that 'care' at all? Seems logical to me.
We haven't been asking the right questions. Out of the $3.4 Trillion we spend on healthcare, what should be the main objective? The answer is to keep people healthy, not to make people money. Keep them out of the hospitals.
Once we ask the right questions, we can get to work on producing the correct answers.
Exactly. That's exactly what we have. Because God forbid we actually heal someone and then they won't need their doctor or drugs anymore. It's a great system if you're immoral. We've got to start taking care of ourselves. Doctors have gotten rid of their Hippocratic oath. They do plenty of harm. Let's see, we'll use some thing that causes cancer (chemotherapy) to cure cancer? Brilliant!
Today's Hippocratic oath, "Do no harm... to your wallet".
Nice one.