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Medical care is expensive. It is very good. There is amazing tecnology used every day. All of this stuff is very expensive.
Doctor's fees are now price-fixed by the government. Medicare sets the price. The insurance companies use that as the fixed market price.
Making ten times as many doctors will not lower the cost of healthcare.
If every doctor worked for free the cost of healthcare would not decrease much.
Most doctors run a small business. They have to pay rent, insurance, make a payroll, give their employees raises to pay for $4 gas. Their income is price fixed by Medicare.
Believe it or not - many, many doctors are leaving practice. Or, they start injecting Botox, prescribing hormones, etc - anything that patients charge on the VISA.
American doctors have to save crack babies that weigh less than a cheesburger.
Cost $1,000,000 per child. They go on to wind up in prison or institutions for a variety of reasons costing more millions. That is just one example of why our care seems so expensive. Insurance company executive compensation is another reason:
United Health Group
CEO: William W McGuire
2005: 124.8 mil
5-year: 342 mil
Blame the doctors if you want.
"Find a doctor now who will accept tomatoes."
Find a medical office building that will accept tomatoes for rent.
Find a professional liability insurance company that will accept 50,000 pounds of ripe tomatoes as payment.
Disagree if you want.
Good luck finding a doctor when free government healthcare finally arrives.
Think about this the next time you are standing in line at the post office.
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