[fzeroracer]

It is a feature. People need to look at this from the same angle as dark patterns. The goal with all of these interconnected but disjointed systems is so that the person holding the bag is constantly changed.

It's unfortunate that the author of this article in question manages to take away the wrong impression.

> It’s obvious how to fix health care. Just make everything run systematically, like FedEx or Amazon. There are no technical or business obstacles to this. Anyone who understands IT and/or business can see how to do it.

> Health care is notionally a profit-driven free market. This looks like an easy opportunity to make trillions of dollars by making the world better for everyone. Why doesn’t someone do that?

The thing they miss is that healthcare companies are already making trillions of dollars. They make trillions because the system they designed is working as intended. You look at other countries and how their healthcare systems work and you will see a vast difference in functionality and efficiency. Because they know healthcare being a for-profit driven industry with weak government controls leads to the shitshow we have in America.

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> You look at other countries and how their healthcare systems work and you will see a vast difference in functionality and efficiency. Because they know healthcare being a for-profit driven industry with weak government controls leads to the shitshow we have in America.

You can't boil healthcare down to a single reason.

At minimum, there are supply (providers and facilities) and demand (insurers and patients) sides, each of which have their issues and solutions.

There is no magic bullet that any country has found to solve the problem, other than -- have enough providers and facilities for patient demand and find a way to make it worth their while.