Many of these points apply to socialized medicine as well. Take Germany for example:
- "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"; less patients wait until pain is unbearable and as a result doctors are inundated a lot of mildly sick people (who probably didn't need a doctor).
- Treating symptoms instead of the underlying cause is easier for the doctor who is inundated with people that have mild sniffles and aches.
Hence, a lot of my German friends were prescribed "spa time" in the hopes that it would clear itself up before getting a "real" prescription if spa time didn't work.
- "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"; less patients wait until pain is unbearable and as a result doctors are inundated a lot of mildly sick people (who probably didn't need a doctor).
- Treating symptoms instead of the underlying cause is easier for the doctor who is inundated with people that have mild sniffles and aches.
Hence, a lot of my German friends were prescribed "spa time" in the hopes that it would clear itself up before getting a "real" prescription if spa time didn't work.