PMID: 18411565Apr 17, 2008Paper

The resistible growth of health care costs

Acta chirurgica Belgica
O V Grosjean

Abstract

Rather than our routinely blamed ageing demography, pharmaceutical promotion and the medical business, not research, are responsible for our ever growing health bill. To keep essential health care affordable, only what has been proved necessary and cost effective should be financed by some kind of risk mutualisation system. Hedonistic care should be left to the free market. From conception to death, a devastating culture of medicalization and therapeutic agressivity has turned naturally inexpensive processes, such as conception, birth, ageing and death, into over-priced medical achievements. The increasing lack of personal and social responsibility triggered by the market, such as junk food, tobacco, drugs, sedentarity or trash media, multiply life-threatening illnesses such as diabetes 2, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and all kinds of cancers. Screenings require millions of participants and intense statistical analysis to prove any efficacy. Screenings, testings and proactive practices make people sick and produce more patients than they save lives , while generating exceptional returns on investments thanks to state and insurance financing; they should be put under public control. New drugs are unaffordable in spite of the...Continue Reading

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