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Not surprising to me.

A family member just had a stroke... the entire system is designed around maximizing billing. If someone is in a longer term situation and a Alzheimer's diagnosis makes a buck, you'll get that diagnosis.

Never mind the mental condition is probably a result of the institutional environment and drugs.




> the entire system is designed around maximizing billing

Our entire world is built that way, it isn't unique to medicine.


Except for businesses that compete on price.


And every business does everything it can to not have to do that, it works when there's choice and price transparency, markets fail without the right ingredients and healthcare is certainly one of the markets the free market has failed.




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