Instead of revamping their payment model though, physicians and their lobbyists spend the majority of their political energy attacking lawyers and as the self congratulatory post (which you can’t comment on) from the AMA a couple up indicates, rearranging the deck chairs on the sinking ship that is the last vestiges of free market healthcare in the US.

The money-seekers are everywhere, behind every bush. They masquerade as regular doctors, usually claiming that they just need to house, feed, and clothe their families. Yeah, right.

Yet, once you dispense the money to them, they surreptitiously divert the spoils, spending it all on attorneys.

The attorneys tell the doctors that they just need to house, feed, and clothe their families with all that money.

Yet, once the doctor gives them the money, they go and spend it all on preferred shares of stock in medical insurance companies.

The insurance company buys the hospital you work in, then the building that you live in. Now you can REALLY speak up at work about all those issues of quality and fairness that make your conscience cringe with shame.

There’s nothing like a free market to “clean things up”!

And, I thought all those extra tests were ordered because of “defensive medicine.”

Apparently, you only peddle that little lie when medmal reform is on he agenda.

UK physicians are private. Same as Canada. They are their own business. There are medical services that are rationed in their system. The physicians rationing would be free to provide the services for free, I’m sure. That would help to shorten their waiting times.

Well, until they go bankrupt.

Nevertheless, the decision to arguably undertreat in a system like the UK or Canada, where someone is put on a waiting list, is every bit as much of a business decision as a USA (Sandeep Jauhar) decision to arguably overtreat.