I remember ADs on TV, actual ads, for catheters DECADES ago when I used to watch TV.
The greed and grift on government programs isn't new; it's been around for my entire life.
Competition is good, for time insensitive fungible things of comparable quality. It can also be good for a reverse dutch auction (within a geographic area) contract price (going rate for the year / timeframe) for a given number of procedures of a sort.
I think the ACA (Obamacare) tried far too hard to reach a compromise and fell short. A singe player, taxpayer funded baseline medical care for all organized by by the government as a healthcare provider program is the only answer for a society where we agree everyone should have the right to medically necessary procedures so they can be productive members of society.
It doesn't matter if there's a single payer or not if supply is constrained and demand is skyrocketing.
Solution is to make healthcare a branch of public service.
The greed and grift on government programs isn't new; it's been around for my entire life.
Competition is good, for time insensitive fungible things of comparable quality. It can also be good for a reverse dutch auction (within a geographic area) contract price (going rate for the year / timeframe) for a given number of procedures of a sort.
I think the ACA (Obamacare) tried far too hard to reach a compromise and fell short. A singe player, taxpayer funded baseline medical care for all organized by by the government as a healthcare provider program is the only answer for a society where we agree everyone should have the right to medically necessary procedures so they can be productive members of society.