In These Times

Healthcare is expensive, no doubt about it, but it's not helped by having it provided by companies whose legal obligation is to deny it to you as much as they are legally able. Their fiscal obligation is to their shareholders, not to the patient. Additionally, if you examine the structure of the current US healthcare, it is almost entirely curative, not preventative, because they have no incentive to keep you healthy when you may at any time switch to another healthcare provider. Their treatments are measured against short-term actuarial tables, and so typically inexpensive short term preventative treatments are forgone because …

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