Originally published by our sister publication General Surgery News
‘Dependence begets subservience
and paves the way to tyranny.’—Thomas Jefferson

This is the black box warning for the state of U.S. healthcare in 2025. In my previous writings on this subject in “Healthcare Upside Down: A Critical Examination of Policy and Practice” (Springer, 2022), and General Surgery News (December, 2023), I focused on the statistics of the clinical