America’s Looming Primary-Care Crisis
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America’s Looming Primary-Care Crisis
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#3Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of 50+ years of terrible policy making. Who could’ve seen this coming except every other country on the planet?
No one’s gonna die, that’s when it’s all going to come to a head. We cannot afford Medicare for all when everybody is fucking sick.
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#4Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of 50+ years of terrible policy making. Who could’ve seen this coming except every other country on the planet?
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#5Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of 50+ years of terrible policy making. Who could’ve seen this coming except every other country on the planet?
You really think 5 months of a pandemic is going to expose this? New York is returning back to normal. The new surges will pass in the same time frame (5 months). The looming primary care crisis will show itself on a much longer time frame. It’s a snake that’s wrapping around, slow acting venom, and we’ll finally see it when it’s not just the ailing boomers that will need continuous care for ubiquitous things like Di…
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
You really think 5 months of a pandemic is going to expose this? New York is returning back to normal. The new surges will pass in the same time frame (5 months). The looming primary care crisis will show itself on a much longer time frame. It’s a snake that’s wrapping around, slow acting venom, and we’ll finally see it when it’s not just the ailing boomers that will need continuous care for ubiquitous things like Di…
We should be able to afford it when the government takes its rightful place as health dictator. Ban alcohol. Ban tobacco. Ban fatty foods. Ban meat. Ban high fructose corn syrup. If not ban, make it so only rich white people can afford it. Then we can afford things by requiring doctors to either work within the system or they can’t be doctors. That takes care of them going into private care.
I'm not sure I want to live in the country you are suggesting we make.
What about drugs are legalized instead, and the medical sector is deregulated for example by removing residency requirements?
If a rating system can let anyone become the equivalent of a cab, we certainly can do the same with doctors educated abroad while also educating more at home.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
We should be able to afford it when the government takes its rightful place as health dictator. Ban alcohol. Ban tobacco. Ban fatty foods. Ban meat. Ban high fructose corn syrup. If not ban, make it so only rich white people can afford it. Then we can afford things by requiring doctors to either work within the system or they can’t be doctors. That takes care of them going into private care.
Ban, ban, ban, then force people to work for the government? I'm not sure I want to live in the country you are suggesting we make. What about drugs are legalized instead, and the medical sector is deregulated for example by removing residency requirements? If a rating system can let anyone become the equivalent of a cab, we certainly can do the same with doctors educated abroad while also educating more at home.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
We should be able to afford it when the government takes its rightful place as health dictator. Ban alcohol. Ban tobacco. Ban fatty foods. Ban meat. Ban high fructose corn syrup. If not ban, make it so only rich white people can afford it. Then we can afford things by requiring doctors to either work within the system or they can’t be doctors. That takes care of them going into private care.
Ban, ban, ban, then force people to work for the government? I'm not sure I want to live in the country you are suggesting we make. What about drugs are legalized instead, and the medical sector is deregulated for example by removing residency requirements? If a rating system can let anyone become the equivalent of a cab, we certainly can do the same with doctors educated abroad while also educating more at home.
The only thing we solved is making sure you can live with the ailment.
We didn’t solve the cost of continuous care. Whoever is born today, will enter the demographic of questionable health in just 40 years. That means in our lifetime we’ll have almost 3 generations with garbage health inundating the healthcare system.
Try to flatten that curve.
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#9Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of 50+ years of terrible policy making. Who could’ve seen this coming except every other country on the planet?
You really think 5 months of a pandemic is going to expose this? New York is returning back to normal. The new surges will pass in the same time frame (5 months). The looming primary care crisis will show itself on a much longer time frame. It’s a snake that’s wrapping around, slow acting venom, and we’ll finally see it when it’s not just the ailing boomers that will need continuous care for ubiquitous things like Di…