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Nov. 26, 2009 The controversy over health care reform has created an eternal media din, and I suppose the noise will never stop until something gets passed. Health care reform in the U.S. is necessary, however, because the field of medicine is a crooked business. Unfortunately, most of the reforms being discussed will be like using a bandaid on a soldier with a limb blown off. The quality of health care in the U.S. is bad because it's profit-driven from top to bottom--doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies are making a fortune. Very little of this profit is honest money. The more life-endangering, unnecessary procedures doctors perform, the more they (and hospitals) make. If doctors were paid a salary, this wouldn't happen. But instead of being dedicated professionals, American doctors are businessmen who view sickness as a potential profit for them. Take for example, the removal of tonsils. This is an unnecessary procedure. The only time it's ever necessary to remove tonsils is in extremely rare cases of tumor growth. Yet, at one time (and some doctors still recommend this corrupt procedure) removing tonsils was common because doctors falsely claimed it would reduce the incidence of fevers. It was a quick, simple procedure, and an easy buck for the doctor. Plus, there was a low mortality rate. But I know of a doctor's son who bled to death following this procedure, and my nephew almost bled to death due to a tonsillectomy. One can imagine the expected salesmanship that motivated the doctor and father of the fatality I mentioned--"The procedure is so safe my own son had one." Annual checkups are another crooked racket. There is no evidence that having an annual checkup for everyone increases the average lifespan. It's likely a doctor can find something that doesn't need treatment, yet prescribe an expensive treatment that may endanger a person's life because he can insist on follow up appointments and make more money. Or he can make a mistaken diagnoses that leads to prolonged hospitalization. Or he can just make something up (like a crooked mechanic). Doctors are responsible for far more unnecessary deaths than drunk drivers, yet the former are revered and the latter condemned. How odd. If a person understands this, the recent governmental panel report that concluded mammograms are unnecessary for most women under 40 is quite believable. My dad's a retired physician. He always says, "stay away from doctors." Insurance companies are the second culprit in the crooked American medical system. They're happy to collect high premiums from healthy people who never go to the doctor. But if a person gets sick, all of a sudden, they look for an excuse not to pay for potential life saving procedures. Their motive is profit: cold, hard cash. Anybody who thinks insurance companies care about them (despite what their enormously wasteful commericals say) is a stupid chump. Health insurance companies should be completely outlawed; their assets seized by the government to help fund a nationalized single payer system, like that of the 38 countries which rank higher than the U.S. in quality of health care (according to the World Health Organization). All hospitals should be non-profit entities. Health care costs are high because greedy businessmen run hospitals. These are the shysters who charge $50 for an aspirin.
Here's the three ways to improve health care in America: pay doctors a salary, outlaw private health insurance, and replace for-profit hospitals with nonprofit hospitals. But my reforms will never happen because representatives of these crooked businessmen grease the palms of our elected members of congress.
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