>>98264944It's not "American healthcare", it's western modern medicine.
In ye old days it was
>go see doctor>"Hmmm, a cough, let's try some anti-cough medicine and see what works">eventually get betterNow it's
>go see a GP>he has no idea what it could be, go see a specialist>go see a billion specialists>"MUST BE A HORSE, NOT A ZEBRA">get prescribed basic antibiotics, which obviously don't work>go see the specialist again>"MUST BE A HORSE NOT A ZEBRA">repeat endless cycle of random diagnosises and equally random medicinesI recently suffered from bad nasal congestion and the doctors had no idea what it could be but prescribed antibiotics anyway, which they're not supposed to do.