A similar area is the mortuary business.
We had a guy die in our area a few weeks ago, and the cheapest they could get him buried was just under 5000 dollars.
There's no reason for that other than because of a legislative monopoly that's been granted to that industry.
If docs didn't have their legislative monopoly in ALL health areas, then medicine would get cheaper really quickly.
There's no real reason that an MD has to be the one to tell you to take tylenol.
Without tort reform, none of this will work at all!
PAs and nurses are a lot of the problem. In my home town, the hospital opened 50 years ago with 44 beds and 41 employees. Today, it has 66 beds and over 500 employees. THAT is where all the cash is going, not to the same 15 MDs it takes to run the hospital.
Get over yourselves. Complete medical school, or shut the hell up!