The Reverse Pyramid Scheme by Dr. Evelyn Higgins

March 10, 2008--Health care in America is in the shape of a pyramid; however, it is a reverse pyramid. Everyone who graduated from kindergarten knows what happens when your building blocks don't start at the bottom - eventually they fall down because the load becomes too heavy for the design of the system. The design of our current system has physician specialists at the bottom of the pyramid being the most utilized group within the triangle, or pyramid, being formed, with the doctors who prescribe wellness and prevention at the top creating the smallest section of the pyramid. The obvious question, then, would be - even to the kindergartner who is looking at the faulty design of the pyramid - who built this pyramid?

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