It’s not just malpractice insurance. In England, for example, the gov’t owns the hospitals and provides the office space for physicians, and these costs of operation are regulated. In the US, doctors and hospitals are responsible for their own costs of operation subject to the market, but yet must function under reimbursement controls that put them essentially as functionaries of the federal gov’t. Thus, the federal gov’t gets the best of both worlds: they are getting de facto employees without having to take any responsibility for them.
I am not advocating total nationalization, but simply pointing out that the present arrangement is trending towards fascism.
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