[Barrin92]

>We have to invest more in identifying and tackling disease earlier if we want to “stop the hospitals from falling over and the GPs from being overwhelmed,” he said.

Demographics and shrinking labor forces alone will bring the system to its knees regardless of money. It's absolutely baffling in the face of this trend that preventative, systemic policies are practically never discussed and everything centers around individual care.

Countries like Singapore show how you can tackle this, strong interventions to prevent entire populations from being obese, a regulated medical sector to bring costs down and private savings funds to encourage personal responsibilty.

[themitigating]

It's diffcult to do this in countries where one or more political parties use "personal freedom" as a theme.

The UK does have a sugar tax that was implemented 5 years ago that seems to have some good effects

https://www.wcrf.org/looking-back-at-5-years-of-the-uk-soft-...

The problem is any regulation is an opportunity for those who don't like the government to attack the other side.

[chaostheory]

> It's absolutely baffling in the face of this trend that preventative, systemic policies are practically never discussed and everything centers around individual care.

I’m surprised that countries with socialized health care doesn’t already enforce preventive care. Yes, it’s draconian but otherwise the entire system will fall apart faster. Maybe they will with the advent of CBDCs?

[confidantlake]

If we invested more money I think the problem would get fixed. You need to be smart but you don't need to be a genius for most specialties. Some of those people that flood into big tech could instead go into becoming a doctor if the money and working conditions were there.