Recommended Citation
Ali S. Khan,
Witch Doctors, Zombies, and Oracles: Rethinking Health in America,
28 Health Matrix
79
(2018)
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/healthmatrix/vol28/iss1/13
Abstract
To the extent we can even refer to an American healthcare "system," it functions brilliantly ... to make money. The system is designed to reward executives or major shareholders of pharmaceutical & health insurance companies, healthcare facilities, and related entities. With a rapidly aging population, healthcare will soon surpass a fifth of our economy. Of course, the American healthcare system does not function brilliantly when one considers the perspective of patients and over-extended primary care providers. Prices are growing faster than inflation or wages, healthcare is twice as costly as other comparable nations, and one third is a result of waste, fraud, and abuse.