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How American Healthcare Gets it Wrong
This morning I watched a show about Israel’s healthcare system having found (after much experimentation) an effective treatment for TBI (traumatic brain injury)and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). The show demonstrated how a legislator was trying to get the VA to experiment with the treatment. He indicated that 22 Veterans commit suicide daily and that many are desperate for finding ways to help Veterans with trauma.
American healthcare is turning down new and better treatments for all of us. Part of the problem is our capitalistic structure which always asks the question, how much profit is available? If there is no profit to be made, the American Healthcare system says no. After all, profit is the construct by which healthcare exists in America.
I think that there is another problem with healthcare in America. It’s my personal observation as well as the reporting of an entire chronically ill community~
American Healthcare believes that they have arrived. They know everything and what they don’t know isn’t important. For the chronically ill that’s the source of all of the gaslighting they receive in the treatment rooms of America. “You mean my treatment has not resolved your chronic pain? Well that can’t be, perhaps you aren’t…
