American healthcare is expensive because there are countless businesses who exploit the patient-doctor relationship for their own/shareholders’ financial gain. Quit the alternative narrative bs. We see you.
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Moreover, college is an exercise in critical thinking, especially premedical education. I can’t imagine you want less educated physicians caring for you?
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Additionally, the bottleneck to graduating more US physicians is due to lack of residency positions, not that students are moving too slowly through the system. https://news.aamc.org/for-the-media/article/gme-funding-doctor-shortage/ …pic.twitter.com/ADvKyroBjS
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@AAMCtoday, in 2017, 75% of medical students graduated with educational debt, median amount being $192,000. A small fraction of that is from premedical education $25,000. Medical school is the real cost center here, median cost $180,000.pic.twitter.com/axjCS2eyEv
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For your next opinion piece on why American medicine is so expensive consider covering the publicly traded for-profit health insurance industry's roll in shifting healthcare dollars to their shareholders, not blaming doctors' educations.
#health#healthcarepic.twitter.com/s0KTaWTJbJ
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Would you trade away your undergrad experience to save $$$ ?
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NFW. No football? No lifelong friends made over the Nth beer? Nope. Nor would I trade 4th yr Med school electives. I am sum total of my 8 yrs.
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Amen brother. Me too
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Healthcare in the US is expensive because it is a business, with mark-ups every step of the way. Thats an expection in most western economies. Same thing with college education.
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Like higher education, prices have become expensive because very few Americans directly purchase care. For most business products, high prices would constrain demand and the “mark-ups” you mention wouldn’tbe accepted by the market.
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Yep. Make the product purchase indirectly, and protect the provider from any market penalties. A recipe for unbelievable inflation.
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Yet understanding culturally diverse patients is paramount for successful outcomes!
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Not really. Doctors everywhere are "forced" to have higher education, which is usually far longer than any 'conventional' academic path. But it's the US that takes the cake on being batsh-t expensive. Blame capitalism. Health is a valued commodity nowadays.
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I most certainly do not want any professional to be ignorant of culture, art or government, not to mention interpersonal relationships. And you may be sure these are not taught in our high schools.
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Wow. Forced to take trig, calculus, economics, chemistry, learn how to write an organized paper - like, a medical one! None of that's relevant, right? There are class choices, ya know. Maybe they should choose better!
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In much of the rest of the world they get that in high school.
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Not the advanced stuff that is taught in college that they need for medicine.
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Yes. Calculus, organic chemistry, anatomy, physiology, physics.
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