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>even basic blood tests can lead to unnecessary interventions or treatments

Medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in the US after heart disease and cancer.




The obvious result of an aggressively for-profit healthcare system: aggressively squeezing profit out of everything it can and let then let the doctors take all the heat for it.


>aggressively for-profit healthcare system

Not just for-profit, but aggressively separating the payor and costs (government, insurance) from the treatment and patient, thereby reducing accountability in the system




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