I worked on the tech-side of healthcare informatics with researchers and healthcare economists. What you say is correct. The cost/benefit ratio of hospital admittance and hospital stays has been quantified to an alarming degree. Not that we shouldn't be looking at such costs, but I feel as though it should involve some level of humanity.
The other, often overlooked angle of healthcare in the U.S. is the dynamic at play between for-profit and non-profit hospitals. Both of which require and actively seek profit of course.
As others have stated - we need a complete overhaul of the healthcare system here. Something that would require a Teddy Roosevelt-esque stature of a man (or woman) to get started.
Politicians are often not great especially Teddy Roosevelt - a war-mongering, braggard focused on making a name for the himself and furthering the ‘forward race’.
Change if it comes at all will come by...
1. a populist demagogue with unchecked power
2. Or when the market wills it more than likely via technological disruption of some kind
Things must get worse before they get better as with all major advancements in human history.
wow, great guy. For those not clicking: responsible for single-payer health care in Saskatchewan (60s); voted greatest Canadian 20 years after his death. And Kiefer Sutherland is his grandson, yeah ;)
Looks like you're saying that they won't be good (a moral quality), not that they won't be great (a performance measurement); Alexander was Great, as well as the Great Khan Genghis, shaping the world as we know it, yet neither were good.
