>>13207602Because many of the things corrupting the system are sold as 'good' to the public and uninformed, unimaginitive people believe it wholesale.
Like how prescription data monitoring programs were sold as a way to safely prevent druggies from hitting up multiple docs for their fix but it was actually a method to track, aggregate, and influence the prescribing habits of doctors by regular reports notifying them of where they stand percentile wise in their prescriptions.
Or electronic medical records, which were sold as a way to streamline 'confidential' record sharing but are a way to mass aggregate patient data for medical studies and patient advertising. These studies are then utilized by pharmaceutical, insurance, and medical oversight bodies to dictate something called the "standard of care," a concept sold to the public as a benefit but leads to an increase in costs overall through the ordering of tests, prescribing algorithms, waiting periods, and specialty referrals because doctors must practice defensively at the expense of the patient.
The stupid amounts of certification might be a good last one, since it overall increases costs and feeds the money making organizations keeping the system rolling. ACLS is a good example, since many doctors and nurses spend $200 every two years to the AHA for a certification that is oftentimes mandatory for employment.
Meanwhile the system is set up to punish just enough nurses and doctors to keep the fear going, the high stress environments increasing the risk of errors, but since workers and consumers are ultimately replaceable, it doesn't matter. As long as the wheels keep turning. This is not going to get better in the future, only worse. I'll agree, health care is the most corrupt science.
