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Re:Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial ... by andrei_says_ on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @06:20PM (#18296981)
“I can’t prescribe you this drug because it’s more expensive than the generic one ... despite their sponsoring me and my family to their annual conference in the Bahamas.”

“I can’t recommend this additional procedure for you despite it making me $8500 in a day.”

Regulation doesn’t seem to influence for profit medicine much.

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Re:Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial ... by DoctorOetker on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:10AM (#18301479)
How about also give citizens unrestricted access to their medical files through an online platform (possibly government maintained or possibly insurance maintained, or possibly self-maintained see below...)?

The whole conversation is logged or perhaps converted speech2text as they discuss, and both patient and doctor sign each statement they make. Then both doctor and patient have a copy of their interaction.

Any poor advice is now provable to a third party (say court).

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Re:Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial ... by andrei_says_ on Saturday October 27, 2018 @04:25AM (#18314852)
How about replacing profit as a primary motivation in healthcare with... care?
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