[lit-ideas] Re: vicious budget cuts

>>Infuriating, sickening, nauseating, terrible, etc.

In health care spending, the United States is #1 in the world by a wide margin. In quality of health care, the United States is ranked #5.

Clearly it is the system itself which must be reformed. Throwing more money into the well isn't a viable long-term solution. Nor is balancing the red ink by letting the poor fend for themselves. Nor is letting uninsured clog emergency rooms.

Part of it, I think, has to do with the US being a control society. We try to control and monitor everything, scrutinize every prescription, leash our citizens and lead them around like children. Doctor visits for this drug, no OTC for that drug, records and lists and restraints. Argg! Control Society!

I was in a pharmacy in Brazil. No bright and fancy packaging, rather shelves of what looked like generic boxes of medicine. And most medicines were over-the-counter. You need something, you go get it, you use it, and life goes on. No doctor visits and signing stuff and retinal scans and fingerprinting. The Brazilians assumed you were an adult. Here they assume you are a child.

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