Yeah it's sad people feel pains.
I'm also unhappy that those same people have used Regulatory capture to increase their wages at the expense of public health.
Deregulate medical and there will be less burnout, but the pay will be cut in half.
I'm also unhappy that those same people have used Regulatory capture to increase their wages at the expense of public health.
Deregulate medical and there will be less burnout, but the pay will be cut in half.
Next time you need surgery give me a call. I don't have any relevant qualifications; I have no training; I don't have a professional registration; I don't have insurance; but yeah sure I can watch a few Youtube videos and give it a go.
I've received enough terrible medical and dental care from various "trained" and "registered" practitioners to value referrals much more than any credential or certification.
If you yourself truly believe that a professional registration is satisfactory, then I trust you practice what you preach by never researching doctor reviews. To do so would invalidate your argument.
Your experience with healthcare might be different, but my own experience in the US has been this: I rarely see doctors that have later contacted me to see how the treatment they prescribed was working. Nearly every other service or product I purchase entreats me with a satisfaction survey at some point. I've asked myself: why don't doctors care about my outcome?
I have concluded that while I am the one with the sick body and paying money to fix myself, I am not the only customer. The regulatory agencies, credentialing schools, special interest groups, pharmaceutical companies, and healthcare unions are too.
E.g. truckers still get screwed a dozen ways to Sunday before end of Monday every week, but they get their urine tested regularly and get a good nights sleep.
If you want to suggest that less conditions are found because people neglect their eyes because of cost then I'll agree and offer myself as an anecdote.
Really, eye doctors are failing to compete on price and if that takes some skeletons out of the force then so be it. That's one part of capitalism I appreciate. Adapt or perish.
To buy dandruff medicine you need to get approval from a Physician, a pharmacist, and pharmacy. Not to mention the actual product regulations.
We've had 140 years of regulation. It was to protect healthcare workers at our expense.
I'm sure you're right, and without regulation doctors would be paid less. They'd make it up in direct sponsorships from pharmaceutical companies though.
Sometimes well intentioned regulation gets it wrong. Sometimes it's perverted in Congress. Sometimes it's designed to fail. It is congresses responsibility to police themselves as much as it is the people's. When regulation fails fix the regulation. That's hard when Republicans are dying on the hill of Government Bad.
"No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems -- of which getting elected and re-elected are No. 1 and No. 2. Whatever is No. 3 is far behind".
Thomas Sowell
Although not perfect, the FDA seemed to do the right thing in the case of Thalidomide.