'Doctors' sense of our complicity in putting profits over people has grown more difficult to ignore,' writes _Eric_Reinhart.
The New York Times"Doctors have long diagnosed many of our sickest patients with 'demoralization syndrome,' a condition commonly associated with terminal illness that's characterized by a sense of helplessness and loss of purpose," wrote Eric Reinhart, a physician at Northwestern University.
"The United States is the only large high-income nation that doesn't provide universal healthcare to its citizens," Reinhart continued"Instead, it maintains a lucrative system of for-profit medicine. For decades, at least tens of thousands of preventable deaths have occurred each year because healthcare here is so expensive."
The coronavirus pandemic accelerated that trend and spotlighted the fatal dysfunction of the nation's healthcare system, which is dominated by a handful ofpublished last year in the, a universal single-payer healthcare system could have prevented more than"In the wake of this generational catastrophe, many healthcare workers have been left shaken," Reinhart wrote Sunday."
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