This directly addresses a primary problem with health care in our country. It is now seen as a commodity like oil, cars, or soybeans. Patients are reduced to "consumers" while health care professionals are reduced to "providers." This absurd notion is at the heart of the Ryan/Tea Party/Republican plan to gut Medicare, shift more costs to seniors, and enrich (further) the insurance companies. When you, a family member, your parent, or grandparent is faced with a serious or life threatening health problem, you are not going to have the time, information, inclination, or knowledge to compare several treatments or "providers" as you might do if you were buying a new high def TV.
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