[erenyeager]

Honestly doctors don’t have enough time to juggle all this along with treating the patient. Many times it is the case that the patient cannot afford the medication and/or their insurance will not cover it. Shifting this burden on the physician and patients to figure out these economic problems interferes with healthcare.

[lotsofpulp]

Definitely, but it is a result of the mismatch in costs relative to expectations of quality and quantity of healthcare with current supply of doctors and medicines (out of patent).

I am in favor of the US federal government to spend money on R&D for medicines resulting in fewer patented medications resulting in lower cost medications. And also reforming the process to becoming a doctor because obviously people want more doctors. Not necessarily making doctors less qualified, but the whole spend your 20s torturing yourself is unnecessary, along with wasting 4 years on a bachelors.