I'm on the gulf coast, and we just had a high-profile prosecution of a doctor running a pill mill.
What if this whole mess isn't so much a technical problem to be solved as much as it is our system functioning under its own perverse incentives? Other countries don't have this problem.
In my own area of expertise, I have seen so many non-solutions force-fed to the customer when an actual solution is not as profitable. It is not hard to believe that medicine operates similarly.
> What if this whole mess isn't so much a technical problem to be solved as much as it is our system functioning under its own perverse incentives? Other countries don't have this problem.
That description could easily be applied to many aspects of the US healthcare system - an epidemic is a failing of public health.
What if this whole mess isn't so much a technical problem to be solved as much as it is our system functioning under its own perverse incentives? Other countries don't have this problem.
In my own area of expertise, I have seen so many non-solutions force-fed to the customer when an actual solution is not as profitable. It is not hard to believe that medicine operates similarly.