Your view of the medical system suggests that the government regulations prevent all alternative medicine from existing. That’s not true.
Individual citizens spend money to buy medical products outside of the official system. In Germany a “Heilpraktiker” can perform many different medical interventions. To become a Heilpraktiker a person has to pass a reasonable written and oral test and afterwards they can engage in diagnozing and curing illnesses. They can’t get the insurance companies to pay for a given treatment, they can’t treat infectious diseases (you don’t want those diseases to spread), a few lobbies like dentists succeeded in preventing Heilpraktikers from operating on their turff but they can do a lot and can even operate.
Hospital are big institutions and building a better hospital takes a lot of energy but many medical issues can be treated on a much smaller scale.
I see the appeal of wanting to separate the task of medicine among multiple specialists but I don’t think that would be needed to get change. If you have multiple treatment provides who tell you predictions about the likely outcome of getting treated by them you can have an effective market in a way that needs less complexity.
I think you would likely find a jurisdiction where you could start a company that manages a market where medical intervention could be brought with open prices and open knowledge about likely outcomes through the mechanism I described in my post about prediction-based medicine.
Your view of the medical system suggests that the government regulations prevent all alternative medicine from existing. That’s not true.
Individual citizens spend money to buy medical products outside of the official system. In Germany a “Heilpraktiker” can perform many different medical interventions. To become a Heilpraktiker a person has to pass a reasonable written and oral test and afterwards they can engage in diagnozing and curing illnesses. They can’t get the insurance companies to pay for a given treatment, they can’t treat infectious diseases (you don’t want those diseases to spread), a few lobbies like dentists succeeded in preventing Heilpraktikers from operating on their turff but they can do a lot and can even operate.
Hospital are big institutions and building a better hospital takes a lot of energy but many medical issues can be treated on a much smaller scale.
I see the appeal of wanting to separate the task of medicine among multiple specialists but I don’t think that would be needed to get change. If you have multiple treatment provides who tell you predictions about the likely outcome of getting treated by them you can have an effective market in a way that needs less complexity.
I think you would likely find a jurisdiction where you could start a company that manages a market where medical intervention could be brought with open prices and open knowledge about likely outcomes through the mechanism I described in my post about prediction-based medicine.