Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Trying to Figure Out the Cataclysmic Chasm in Healthcare

From "A Doctor in Manhattan:"

I mean, here we are, just plowing ahead curing everything right and left, leaving many of us to live longer and longer while women and children are dying at young ages from thing like malaria, measles and infant diarrhea. Diseases we in the developed world left behind in the history books years ago.

Really, really think about that. While we sit here worrying about which statin to take because we won't get off our fat ass to exercise, kids are dying all over Africa from malaria and measles.

That's because there's no master plan. There's no prioritizing where the money is going on a worldwide basis.

Now I know those laisse faire capitalists out there are saying "Leave it alone. Let it evolve. It's working, just not at the pace everyone wants it to. And not equally everywhere, but give it time. We're figuring it out..."

But are we figuring it out? Or are we just figuring out best how to make money doing it?

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