The "majority" of the people want SOMETHING done. The hard part is trying to come to a consensus.
I've yet to hear or read a nice concise list of how ANY of the bills floating around DC will even ADDRESS, much less solve, the following issues:
- Overmanaging the supply of doctors
- Access problems in rural areas
- Subscribers dropped when they get sick and are no longer 'profit centers'.
- Overly defensive medicine (too many tests costing too much as a defense against lawsuits)
- Paying orders of magnitude more than other countries for the same medicines.
- Having a FDA/approval/patent system that prevents alternative treatments from getting fully tested so "snake oil salesmen" can continue to make outlandish claims for their "supplements".
- Advertising prescription drugs to the general public causing phone-call logjams at doctor's offices and countless hours wasted by doctors having to explain that "the purple pill" isn't for them.
And this is just what I can think of off the top of my head.
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