What America did have was a jumble of ill-fitting building blocks: the doctoring industry, the hospital industry, the insurance industry, the drug industry, the device industry. They’d all been able to tweak and sand the corners of proposed “solutions” to benefit themselves. Lobbyists and political action committees spent millions to do so until the edifice of American medicine looked like a fragile Tower of Babel, rotten with holes and the crooked passageways where money was hidden. There was so much money. Trillions. And there was so much incentive to embrace the insanity because the
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