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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: skinowski who wrote (8193)8/13/2009 12:52:49 AM
From: Archie Meeties  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
"The truly scary scenario, however, is if we have to deal with organisms which are resistant to ALL existing antibiotics"

You've made a good case for socialized medicine, where rates of antibiotic useage are generally lower than here in the US. Only in the "anything goes" types of medicine of the 3rd world does resistance come into being faster.

You're exmplifying some confused thinking about health. You think fatter profits leads to more health. Actually, the whole paradigm needs to change from some sort of reactive, specialized and expensive model to a cheaper, less drug intensive model with greater focus on prevention and decreasing health risks.

For example, think of the fight the government waged on smoking, probably the single biggest advance in health since the germ theory (also a government implemented public health initiative fyi).
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