Another lovely medical industry experience

[DoggyDaddy]

So basically it was like suddenly realizing the local NBC news had been preempted?

 

[bgcatty]

Hi Y’all ! After four lumbar back surgeries I have really, really begun to, no I do now, question the medical industry. Is it really medicine in the best interests of the patient or is it a business in the best interest of the hospitals and the doctors therein?
After-all something has to cover the “nut” of those mega expensive hospitals and fancy medical offices!

 

[phylodog]

Hi Y’all ! After four lumbar back surgeries I have really, really begun to, no I do now, question the medical industry. Is it really medicine in the best interests of the patient or is it a business in the best interest of the hospitals and the doctors therein?
After-all something has to cover the “nut” of those mega expensive hospitals and fancy medical offices!

It's little different than our government or any other major industry in this country. It serves itself first and foremost, the people actually footing the bill are of little consequence or concern.

 

[tim87tr]

It's little different than our government or any other major industry in this country. It serves itself first and foremost, the people actually footing the bill are of little consequence or concern.

My default in recent years is that most things are financialized and proceed cautiously, thinking about how it affects oneself. After I flipped the "scamdemic" switch, I saw it a lot more.

Probably related to the decays in society and fiat monetary that the greed has increased. Debt based driven economies and currency devolve into desperate times as now.

Decent big picture article.

Financialization has increased economic fragility

Since the 1980s, financial activities and assets have played an increasingly dominant role in the global economy. At the same time, underlying economic

www.atlanticcouncil.org

 

[phylodog]

I spent my entire adult working life employed by the government. Unfortunately it was always as a bottom feeder (Army, LE) so I'm very used to doing more with less. The transition to paying more for less sucks but hasn't been terribly difficult to get used to for me.

I don't expect to see things as easy as they were again in my lifetime short of some enormous shift in humanity or something. Materialism isn't working out quiet so well.