[factoryrat]

Electronic medical records= digital death panels.

An algorithm will determine whether you receive treatment, or a trip to the euthanasia “clinic”.

And of course the “health” insurance industry will write the parameters of that algorithm based on their “risk” assessments.

Healthcare was much more affordable and accessible 20~40 years ago than it is today, and the medical field had no shortage of doctors who could make a good living.

So what went wrong?

[Keyhopper]

The insurance companies got involved.

[AndyJackson]

the medical field had no shortage of doctors who could make a good living. So what went wrong?

There is a wonderful term for the whole phenomenon. It is called "managerialism."

Managerialism combines management knowledge and ideology to establish itself systemically in organisations and society while depriving owners, employees (organisational-economical) and civil society (social-political) of all decision-making powers. Managerialism justifies the application of managerial techniques to all areas of society on the grounds of superior ideology, expert training, and the exclusive possession of managerial knowledge necessary to efficiently run corporations and societies.