People wait ages to see doctors, paperwork/bills takes forever, patients treated like chattel until their 5-15min with the doctor.
My last job in a hospital was writing code to, amongst other things, rescue people w/ insurance from bankruptcy.
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back when I was young and handsome I worked on a similar system, though it was in COBOL and Tandem RTOS.
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Quest Diagnostics (US) still uses Tandem and COBOL for their backend
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(shakes head)....
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Oh, I love our medical system, where patient bankruptcy is not even a concept.
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BTW, I'm not socialist, and know all that isn't free (costs a lot in fact), but it's a global benefit, so...
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everybody (or nearly?) accepts the cost/benefit ratio.
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