The issue is our healthcare system is run by the insurance companies. A family friend is a surgeon in Miami, and he has insurance companies basically telling him what he should do when patients come in with X injury/ailment. He has argued before with what he describes as some insurance rep reading out of a book. Everything has a process where you must first jump through a series of hoops that aren't needed (which of course the insurance companies make money off of) before you are allowed to do the actual treatment that will heal the patient.
It's like bringing your car to the repair shop with an engine noise but they tell you to get it washed and change the brakes first because that's what they do for all cars before diagnosing them.
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"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
-Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
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