If we would have a medical system that would run on prediction-based medicine where the ability of a practitioner to solve health issues would be what they are paid for, the argument for the health interventions would work.
In our world however, in most medical cases people are paid for providing “standard of care” instead of being paid for results. If a hospital would hire an energy healer they would open themselves up to lawsuits about not providing standard of care.
The way the for profit healthcare system works is not to focus on “health care cost reduction” but making profits by performing costly treatments.
Outside of hospitals we do find a sector where people do make profits by providing alternative health treatments. This doesn’t mean that those treatments automatically work, but we don’t see a lack of people who make their living with them.
And some of these things make more money or get more research in versions that are rebranded to sound more respectable. de Bono taught and sold his ideas to various clients; when I asked Claude if there’s any research on the effectiveness of Tarot, it said that there’s some research on OH cards, that are basically like Tarot cards without the woo stigma, making them more palatable to academic researchers.
If we would have a medical system that would run on prediction-based medicine where the ability of a practitioner to solve health issues would be what they are paid for, the argument for the health interventions would work.
In our world however, in most medical cases people are paid for providing “standard of care” instead of being paid for results. If a hospital would hire an energy healer they would open themselves up to lawsuits about not providing standard of care.
The way the for profit healthcare system works is not to focus on “health care cost reduction” but making profits by performing costly treatments.
Outside of hospitals we do find a sector where people do make profits by providing alternative health treatments. This doesn’t mean that those treatments automatically work, but we don’t see a lack of people who make their living with them.
And some of these things make more money or get more research in versions that are rebranded to sound more respectable. de Bono taught and sold his ideas to various clients; when I asked Claude if there’s any research on the effectiveness of Tarot, it said that there’s some research on OH cards, that are basically like Tarot cards without the woo stigma, making them more palatable to academic researchers.