The Doctor Is In: Infant Mortality Comparisons a Statistical Miscarriage
And we do get some medical “tourism” from Canada for exactly this issue – women told by their doctors that there is no better care than in the U.S. for their troubled pregnancy – likely premie.
And we never seem to discuss that the first thing that’s cut when budgets are tight is research. And like defense, if the U.S. doesn’t do it (sadly) no one will. I hope we’re all happy with the state of today’s medicine because not only are we regulating ourselves to stasis (trying to avoid a few more deaths by testing regimes that restrict the ability the wealthy to suffer and spend their own money to try to live another three miserable months – and sometimes extend the science) but when there is no profit there will be no research. The research that still exists in these other countries is largely driven by the opportunity to sell in the U.S. When that opportunity to make a ROI on significant risk evaporates, so will those companies.
If we don’t shackle the medical profession, we’ll look back at today in 100 years the same way we look back at leaches and worse – primitive medicine (if not snake oil) at its best.
