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Make the healthcare system better with this one weird trick!

December 17th, 2016 | 3 min read

By Matthew Loftus

There are a lot of things that are broken about the American healthcare system. I think one the main problems can be summed up by observing that most parts of the system are not really designed to make people healthy, take care of patients, or even make patients feel satisfied (sometimes they are not the same!)– rather, the system is mostly designed such that the people getting paid are always trying to get paid more and the people who are doing the paying are always trying to pay less.

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Matthew Loftus

Matthew grew up in a family of 15 children and completed his medical training in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2015, he and his family have lived in East Africa, where he currently teaches and practices Family Medicine at a mission hospital. His work has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Atlantis, and Mere Orthodoxy and his first book is forthcoming from InterVarsity Press. You can learn more about his work and writing at www.matthewandmaggie.org.