When physicians leave . . .

Medical care is a legitimate part of the economy like everything else–not a parasite. The fact that the public spending more money on movies and cars is considered good economic growth but spending more money on health care is considered waste is just a function of who has controls of the agenda of the public space–the large corporations and the communications industry.

At the local level, money spent on medical care does far more locally than money spent on manufactored goods or electronic entertainments. It has consistently been shown that as people become more prosperous, they willingly allocate greater portions of the increasing surplus to health care–that is what people value. Third party payment is the only reason this is considered a problem.