[idiot900]

> It's not that simple. A society cannot afford the triple-A gold standard of everything for everybody.

The society in question has not realized it.

> US medicine has been very successful at creating a guild system that's prevented lower-cost provision of care for decades, all under the concern of "it'll lower the standards of patient care." End result has been millions of people who can't afford medical care at all.

Even the bottom rungs of the doctors in the "guild system" are not very good - lowering standards even more is very hard to agree with when push comes to shove. Especially there is no guarantee that this will actually lower costs to society.

But I guess this is what will have to happen, at least in primary care, because that is a miserable field that I am incredibly glad I didn't go into. I hope that at least some kind of care turns out to be better than none at all.