Medical advancements have often been measured by the number of people these technologies, medical procedures and drug therapies are able to save. But along with the benefit of being able to save people, there comes a price.
Over the last century, that price has inflated at the cost of patients and their well being. While the U.S. healthcare system has become more structured over the past hundred years, it went from being unregulated and modestly priced, to being modeled after a perfect market that has privatized health care for consumers who can afford it.
The intentions of healthcare professionals are often altruistic. However, the system they work under is not as transparent in the cost and quality of the healthcare they offer to consumers.