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Originally posted by Not Me
The biggest flaw of our current system is that the ultimate consumer (the patient) is by and large insulated from the cost of care at the point of service by the third party payer (assuming that they have health insurance) and that there is an informaiton imbalance between those seliing the service and those receiving the service.
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Actually, the biggest flaw is that scientific advancement has made it possible to fix damn near anything, if we spare no expense.
It's that "spare no expense" part that hangs us up. We are eventually going to have to confront the problem behind it, but it's a sticky one.
