Ban advertisement on TV, Radio, and print medium for any pharmaceutical products. Encourage intelligent, non marketing based discussions with medical providers to make decisions regarding medical treatment. Eliminate marketing influences when making medical decisions
Problem still is pharma spends millions on showering NPs, PAs, and doctors with fancy dinners wining and dining them among other things. Link provided below to look up how much your providers may or may not be getting since it started being recorded. They don’t do this out of charity. They do it because it influences the providers to make them profit.
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Doctors spend less time now a days because insurance pays less and less and requires more and more documentation making less time for the patients. If they don’t see enough patients, their employer will fire them for someone who will. It all points back to insurance and corportization of US healthcare being them problem. Also cost of medical equipment, malpractice, EHR, etc keep going up while pay goes DOWN. Doctors are squeezed from both sides and they’re forced to see more patients to even have a shot of keeping up
See for yourself:
In the future there might be a two tier healthcare system. 1 where you see a real doctor but pay cash and another where you see a NP or PA for poor quality healthcare. NP programs have near 100% acceptance rates, are often completed 100% online while working full time as an RN, and it’s just 3 semesters.
No one in their right mind dying on the table is going to request an NP to do their surgery over a doctor. Just as you wouldn’t trust a stewardess to pilot a plane just because she’s been working there for 5 years.
On a side note, you can check to see if your doctor or NP or PA takes pharma money in the form of dinners and other things: