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gulliver

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12. Healthcare is in chaos
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 04:50 PM
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We have people who don't take the responsibility to exercise and eat right. We have malingerers who become professional patients. We have institutional, monopolistic guilds such as the AMA and the two APAs. We have highly coded and structured insurance and medical infrastructure, resulting in robotic delivery of health care. We have too much litigation. We have a pharmaceutical industry that more and more resembles the junk food industry. We have overworked healthcare staff. We have underappreciated healthcare staff. We have deadwood administrators armed to the teeth with IT reports and spreadsheets. Have I missed anything?

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