or no treatment, or even something sure to kill them, albeit not immediately.
Gotta save the insurance companies money, after all.
And if you think primary care will be the guardrails/caretakers for THAT, I've got news for you. First, they are too overworked and limited by insurance payment procedures that prevent them from taking that kind of time--if they wanted to. Second, primary care physicians rarely question something that falls under a specialty diagnosis and treatment orders- (some do, but on the whole, no, and again that "time thing versus payment restrictions" constraint). Third, we have an intensely gullible public that would rather go to a YouTube non-credentialed "influencer" for vital health information, rather than even those credible websites produced by experts and rewritten to provide easily understood information. And no, those no longer include Federal websites, but academic, major referral hospitals, and many state public health websites.
The future of medical care and good outcomes has already been largely decimated, but this will put the final nail in the future outcomes for all but the most wealthy and educated Americans.
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