What ?!?!?!??!? Yep, doctors are still performing blood letting and adjusting the humors.
Actually, the are still performing bloodletting through the use of leeches (and maggot therapy may fall under this as well...).
In everyother industry technoolgy has managed to reduce costs or improve effieciency, yet only in healthcare does technology raise costs. Yeah, right.
Um, yeah. We live longer, through more hazardous diseases, thanks to expensive technology. There were no MRIs or CTs or an X-Ray machine in every clinic back in the day. They cost money.
And, of course, electronics 'technology' has bugger all to do with doctor training, doctor salaries, drug costs, etc.., so I don't even know what you're talking about.
Name one country that has socialized medicine that has a better standard of care then the US.
Canada, France, the UK, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark...