..so says Dr. Ashish Jha who’s been studying the skim, scam and fraud in health care for most of his career.
{{ … if I could make only one tweak to the system, what I would do is I would look for how to bring a lot more competition into the healthcare marketplace. I think that’s true for hospitals. I think, by the way, that is true for physicians. My friends at the American Medical Association get very mad at me when I say this, but I believe that pharmacists armed with AI can do probably 80% of what a general practitioner can do. We should allow them to do those things. All the scope of practice laws that block nurses and pharmacists and others from doing those things, I actually think are very, very harmful on this question. So I would bring a lot more competition because competition will drive down prices. I’ll bring in more innovation. It will make our system function better and hopefully create the room for us to be able to afford all these wonderful therapies that are coming down the pike. }}
In Europe, where people live 3 or 4 years longer than Americans, only a handful of drugs require a doctor"s prescription and the $100 plus skim of an office visit to obtain the prescription.
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