Leftists are obviously braindead but further to the point, did you know that health care in the US was embarrassingly cheap (embarrassing for doctors, that is) until doctors lobbied the government and formed a monopoly? http://www.freenation.org/a/f12l3.html
The solution to high health care costs in the US is to dismantle medicine as a field and industry, and probably academia as a whole, and rebuild it sans cancer. This would solve most of society's problems, from woke totalitarianism to the covid response catastrophe to the competence crisis etc.
I've read this story before, and the mechanism is somewhat different now. The government is now captured in such a way that they limit the number of doctors themselves. They don't need any AMA to do it. The various people that benefit from healthcare being expensive do the lobbying just fine.
"Lodge practice" is what we would call the HMO. Sounds less good by that name.
That little article always makes me furious. We had such a great thing going, and then greedy doctors decided that instead of competing like an honest man, they would instead make backroom deals with the government to essentially wage lawfare on doctors that didn't comply.
I wonder who those doctors were. That kind of backroom scheming for total monopoly definitely reminds me of a certain group.
The medical industry lobby is so powerful it's been decades since supreme court rulings against it and not one federal or state attorney general has filed charges.
Leftists are obviously braindead but further to the point, did you know that health care in the US was embarrassingly cheap (embarrassing for doctors, that is) until doctors lobbied the government and formed a monopoly? http://www.freenation.org/a/f12l3.html
The solution to high health care costs in the US is to dismantle medicine as a field and industry, and probably academia as a whole, and rebuild it sans cancer. This would solve most of society's problems, from woke totalitarianism to the covid response catastrophe to the competence crisis etc.
Great link. Worthy of its own post.
I had always wondered about Shriners and others and what they were all for.
I've read this story before, and the mechanism is somewhat different now. The government is now captured in such a way that they limit the number of doctors themselves. They don't need any AMA to do it. The various people that benefit from healthcare being expensive do the lobbying just fine.
"Lodge practice" is what we would call the HMO. Sounds less good by that name.
I sort of remember that. My Dad is a doctor and there was a lot of odd talk about it when I was growing up. I know the tech has lagged because of it.
That little article always makes me furious. We had such a great thing going, and then greedy doctors decided that instead of competing like an honest man, they would instead make backroom deals with the government to essentially wage lawfare on doctors that didn't comply.
I wonder who those doctors were. That kind of backroom scheming for total monopoly definitely reminds me of a certain group.
Nearly 1/5 of taxes go to servicing the national debt. We're riding this shit to the scene of the crash.
The medical industry lobby is so powerful it's been decades since supreme court rulings against it and not one federal or state attorney general has filed charges.
It's even worse than you think: https://www.cspicenter.com/p/heading-towards-the-fiscal-cliff#details