[cherry]

the bigger picture here is that authorities can offer "profile" against the young, against the poor, often against women...

if an elder had come in, they'd have been offered Cadillac treatment...but a young skinny pale girl?....just her menses or infatuation with boys....

here is the truth: for a few decades now, we've over treated, over prescribed, over diagnosed people and now people think the old ways should still be here....they're not....that kind of care is way more than any govt can afford, or insurance company...

we are in the days now where you won't automatically get a CT scan, or an MRI and God forbide you need two in a year....that'll send the govt into fits....

get used to it...its here...

[Pontiac]

here is the truth: for a few decades now, we've over treated, over prescribed, over diagnosed people and now people think the old ways should still be here....they're not....that kind of care is way more than any govt can afford, or insurance company

Well in the US I don’t think the era of defensive medicine is quite yet over.

In Britain it certainly is.

But my greater point is that in non-socialized medicine this poor girl could have sought a second opinion. In her socialist hell hole she was stuck with her GP and his deliberately uninformed opinion.

But I agree with you that we are headed down this well-worn path to inferior healthcare. And the Republican Congress we elected to undo Obama Care seems to be so craven as to leave Obama Care in place despite the obvious mandate given them to scrape the disaster.