This has insane. Has it occurred to anyone that the horrific rise in pain killer abuse and the associated use of illegal drugs is caused by too much access to medical care?
The idea of risk/reward analysis for medical care came up in a "semi-satire" posting yesterday. It's not a bad idea. It would make more sense to limit folks access to medical care than to force more people to pay for and thus over-use medical "care". (the third largest cause of death in the US)
Has it occurred to anyone that the horrific rise in pain killer abuse and the associated use of illegal drugs is caused by too much access to medical care?
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Just in case it has, there are stories out in the past few days blaming the manufacturers of OxyContin because it doesn’t last 12 hours and the pharma company told docs to just up the dosage.
Never mind that docs have to navigate a minefield if they even think about prescribing these painkillers.
Fall guys have been designated.