As the West drifts further and further away from optimal public health systems, let us dream out loud about what an ideal set of institutions to promote health would look like.
We've seen in graphic detail how most of the agencies created to protect our health have gone rogue, and we've seen up close the malign influence of Big Pharma, now deeply embedded in public health agencies and using its privileged position to sideline cheap, effective medicines in order to peddle expensive poisons.
The US has spent about double on health relative to Western Europe for decades, and this has yielded health outcomes worse than China and several countries in Latin America or Central Europe whose health systems are easily 90 percent cheaper.
Even Western Europe has spent far more on its health than should have been needed in order to achieve the outcomes it has seen, based on a casual reading of international health systems.
On balance, both public and private health bureaucracies stand in the way of this type of community revival, because functional communities are rivals for the same resources and the same 'clients' as health bureaucracies.
We expect therefore that closing down much of our current health system would help to revive communities that would then start to tackle those of our modern health problems that are largely social in origin.
They dream of perfect measures of health and health needs to feed into a benevolent health bureaucracy.
https://brownstone.org/articles/is-there-a-cure-for-the-western-public-health-catastrophe/
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