Comment: A successful prevention would bankrupt big pharma and this would mean the end of extra money for politicians, doctors, and many others. Corruption is the name of the game.
I would be very careful with privatizing health care as an alternative for our current broken system. Every such attempt (and there are a few that I have identified) leads to services that individuals (not the society at large) have to pay for. Such projects lead to a system that many people will not be able to afford. We should fix the public health care system, after fixing the country, bringing our real economy back, eliminating corruption, and restoring fair taxes for corporations that want to do business in or with Canada – as it used to be in the past, when health care, education and social services were much better than they are today. I understand why doctors would love a private system but this is a wrong priority. Doctors exist for the people, not the other way around. Some doctors are corrupted, they invent ways to double and tripple charge the government for the same, unsolved medical condition. This contributes to the bankruptcy of the system just as does the fact that treatment of symptoms has replaced treatment of causes and prevention.
It should be illegal for pharmaceutical companies to pay doctors for prescribing their drugs. Electronic (cashless) economy could fix such cases of corruption but would also be abused by power-hungry governments and corporations. We need to focus on finding the right and fair solution. And we need to reverse-reform the curricula of medical schools, which requires public funding and elimination of public-private partnerships with strings attached (especially involving big pharma).
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