How would you fix healthcare?
noblethrasher: Use the existing K-12 system to teach people the basics of medicine and nutrition. The only thing that a person owns is this world is his or her body so we should do this even if we have to get rid of some other subject (though I don’t see why we’d have to).Not sure how feasible this is but my idea is that everyone would graduate high school with the equivalent of two years of medical school. In addition to the current post secondary education options afforded to high school graduates (college, vo-tech, military, work force, etc.) offer a government-run quasi vocational program that completes medical training. Graduates of this program would have 14 – 16 years of training in medicine and would then be licensed to practice.This scheme would increase the number of doctors, decrease the need for them, and decrease the extreme asymmetry in medical knowledge between doctors and patients. Furthermore, with nearly ubiquitous medical knowledge we would undoubtedly see more entrepreneurial activity in that space and give innovation a chance to drive down cost and improve care.