Ecology
The decision to opt for a system by which the government paid for providers chosen by patients directly, pushed a ready and deep supply of money into the medical market and did so suddenly. It also made it so that a large population - the disabled, elderly and working poor - that had previously been seen largely as deserving recipients of humanitarian aid…now became a cash cow to be made use of by any willing and able to do so.
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