We, the Clients. How public health care turned citizens into petitioners and responsibility into paperwork

The problem with public health care is not only underfunding, poor oversight, or the absence of yet another audit. The problem is a model in which society pays, doctors and facilities increasingly operate as market actors, and the patient is left in the role of a petitioner who can, at most, file a complaint. Before we point to the guilty, however, it is worth seeing something less theatrical:…