A Missing Focus on Prevention Makes US Health Care Unsustainable
BETTER LIFE
Who pays for health care is secondary to having care that actually preserves health, avoids unnecessary disease
BY JINGDUAN YANG
May 30, 2019 Updated: May 30, 2019
Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon declared that the U.S. health care system faced a massive crisis, warning that without prompt administrative and legislative action, the system would break down.
Since then, almost every administration has repeated a similar statement, using such terms as “unsustainable” and promising revolutionary changes.
A Nonexistent Health Care System
Perhaps the reason that we have been muddling along for decades with an unsustainable health care system, perpetually in crisis, is that we have misnamed the entity we are talking about.… READ MORE...
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