• ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The doctors being paid properly are hardly what I’d consider a profiteering scam. Attack insurance. Attack billing. The doctors are doing a job.

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      The very same doctors who are getting paid extra for selling specific brands of drugs and treatments? It’s a profiteering scam from top to bottom and the doctors are obviously complicit. “Doing a job” my ass, plenty of unethical things in this world are done by people “just doing their job”, in fact - most of them.

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      Who do you think writes the medical textbooks handed out to med students? Part of the scam is in the training how and what to prescribe. Many doctors will treat the symptoms while ignoring the cause. A proper healthy diet and exercise could cure a lot of things, but that’s not profitable advice to give.

      I know a woman who spent years fighting a bunch of skin problems and other issues, visiting all kinds of doctors. Finally she figured it out herself. She had turned herself entirely “vegan” for probably a decade or longer, choosing to forgo all meat, especially red meat. Guess what fixed her big issues? Eating a small filet of steak several times a month - her blood type and genetics required something that she was lacking in all her other vitamins/minerals/etc intake. Not saying eating red meat every day is good for the average person either, but just one example where her condition stumped doctors for several years before she chased down a wild theory herself and it worked.

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      The doctors in the UK are doing the same job, at 1/2 the cost to consumers. The doctors in Germany are doing the same job, at 2/3 the cost to consumers. It’s hard to ignore that the main difference is that the US health care system is a massive profiteering scam throughout the system.

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        I think the current state of the NHS undercuts that argument; the doctors are underfunded there and services have suffered.