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Aug 16, 2023Liked by William H Bestermann Jr MD

I have never seen such a broken fragmented healthcare like we have today. It truly is a healthcare nightmare. One nightmare story after another and to think we pay good money for such dangerous care. I am literally worn out from trying to help people I know navigate the system. I hear comments about cost and quality all the time.

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A much better system can lead to better health at lower cost very quickly. We have promoted the development of huge integrated hospital systems for decades now. That policy did not work. It is time to promote advanced primary care clinics. That is the model in Singapore. They live longer for one fourth the impact on gross domestic product and they live longer. If we move to a system like the one in Singapore, we would free up three trillion dollars annually for other uses.

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am open to anything as what we currently have isn't functioning that well

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Aug 17, 2023Liked by William H Bestermann Jr MD

It sounds good, but I'm not sure many GPs would approve of their monopoly on being the gateway to treatment being put open to competition!

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Aug 17, 2023·edited Aug 17, 2023Author

Many of them wouldn't. It is a patient-centered solution. It is finally about the patient and not clinicians and institutions.

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Something needs to be done, that's for sure.

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