[nickik]

It has nothing to do with profit driven. The problem is about intensives.

The perverse US health care system with all its regulation has made it so that doctors primary make money by giving away pills.

There were other models where people would basically have subscription to clinics and those would have a intensive to keep you healthy.

The problem is that all alternative models are literally illegal.

Check out this podcast: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/06/christy_ford_ch.htm...

They talk about this book: Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System

[UncleMeat]

This explains why countries with more regulation (to the point of state run medicine in England) don't have nearly the same problem with opioid addiction, right?

[nickik]

Well not necessarily. You can also have a stat run system that can have the same intensive problem. I don't know how Britain handles these things.

It really just depends on the individual institutional setup, and it depends on the culture of the doctors.