There’s not enough access to healthcare. Expanding Medicaid to cover patients who are uninsured is not enough—a lot of doctors don’t take Medicaid. There needs to be adequate access on the healthcare provider side. Medicine is extremely commercialized (this is the subject of my next book). Costs run rampant—so how do we institute effective cost control while maintaining quality? And how do we get doctors to buy into cost control knowing it will eat into their income? Pay for performance is a problem because it causes doctors to ignore other aspects of care and focus on what’s rewarded. Sandeep Jauhar, MD
Overall, skyrocketing costs. Pharmaceutical companies charging too much money for new drugs and claiming that it is due to research and development. The lack of human connection and physical exam because it seems easier and faster to order a test. Patients not really being educated about their condition and wanting unrealistic and futile treatments. Not talking about death. Lack of healthcare for everyone. Julie Hersch, MD
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