A reader reacts to AMSA’s naive support of a single-payer system:
Like most activists, the medical students’ good intentions drip off the page in the article, “These future doctors want to fix health care”. However, they speak in flowery terms to describe a Marxist medical system. The reason hospitals are underfunded is because of mandated free medical care to everyone who comes to an emergency room ““ including illegal aliens. Their solution is higher taxes to make up the money the government refuses to provide.
In medical school, students get zero exposure to real-world, private practice medicine. Once they get a taste, often their idealistic notions of a glorious single-payer health-care utopia falls by the wayside.
