Comment on Does free healthcare access increase or decrease the need for medical personnel overall?
jeffw@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoGotta love when people who don’t work in my industry try to explain my industry to me lol
Comment on Does free healthcare access increase or decrease the need for medical personnel overall?
jeffw@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoGotta love when people who don’t work in my industry try to explain my industry to me lol
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’ve worked in healthtech and biotech for nearly a decade at this point. I have a nuanced understanding of the by-design inefficiencies inherent to the American healthcare and insurance system on a bureaucratic and technical level.
There are of course teams of heinous legislation that enabled this shitshow to evolve into what it is today, but the HMO act definitely was a primary initial driver for bootstrapping the system that we have today. I don’t mean to be reductive, but I do mean to zero in on initialization and inflection points, and that was a pretty damn big one.