The health of healthcare, Part II: patient healthcare has cancer
Waldman, D.
Journal of Medical Practice Management Mpm 29(2): 113-116
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 8755-0229 PMID: 24236323 Document Number: 669876
In this article, we make the etiologic diagnosis for a sick patient named Healthcare: the cancer of greed. When we explore the two forms of this cancer--corporate and bureaucratic--we find the latter is the greater danger to We the Patients. The "treatments" applied to patient Healthcare by the Congressional "doctors" have consistently made the patient worse, not better. At the core of healthcare's woes is the government's diversion of money from healthcare services to healthcare bureaucracy. As this is the root cause, it is what we must address in order to cure, not sedate or palliate, patient Healthcare.