Why does nobody look at the medical profession as the racket it is? You don't need to be an MD to handle %80 of hospital visits, and you can train trades people to handle most emergencies. Insurance companies are awful, but seriously, we can train field medics to do stitches and set bones, why should it cost $3000 to have an MD do it? Listening the hand wringing about it is infuriating when you realize that the reaso…
"Of course" says everyone because it seems like an easy answer.
"Then you're sprained ancle will need a team of 20 super MDs, an MRI, CAT scan, sterile isolation ward and a helicopter to get you there. That will be 100 million dollars please!" says the greedy fuck maximising profit, and he's giving you what you said you wanted...
This is basically the US system in a nutshell. Other nations have an approach with more focus on affordability, but the US system (from hospitals, to doctors themselves, to insurers, to drug makers, to the courts) is entirely focused on maximum quality. That's what makes it unaffordable. That's also why you don't have teired treatment like you say: an MD is 0.5% better than a trained nurse at setting a bone. They cost 100 times more. But you decide purely based on the 0.5%