The excellent websites called TruthOut.org (most famous for their being campaigns -- against smoking) are carrying the timely-blog entry/op ed, introspective health caring reform, as well as directions it ought to take. The writer is Dr. Philip Caper, M.D. -- do go review it all -- but this much caught my eye, as well as imagination:
. . . .Prior to about the mid-1970's, American health caring institutions, like those in alternative developed countries, were overwhelmingly nonprofit, locally tranquil entities driven by their mission (not money) -- comforting the sick, curing seizure as well as promoting healing. . . .
Pharmaceutical companies were. . . mostly driven by George Merck's ethic: "If we develop medicines which cure disease, the money will take caring of itself."
By the mid-1970's, leaders in American health caring fell in love with business. They began to hold which government could be improved as well as costs tranquil by the stiff dose of great aged American commercial operation know-how. As the result, initial MBAs, as well as then full-fledged corporatism, began to overflow as well as renovate healing care. Hospital administrators became CEOs, services became product lines, patients became market share as well as so on. . . .
Insurance companies combined opposite state lines, as well as ownership was eliminated from nonprofit local corporations to for-profit multistate as well as inhabitant corporations. As pharmaceuticals became the incomparable part of healing care, curative companies grew, became more essential as well as merged, eventually creating outrageous multinational conglomerates. Ownership was eliminated from in isolation (often family) hands, to apart shareholders by lucrative open offerings. . . .
A worthy Sunday evening read, indeed.
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