Thanks for my laugh of the day. Of course, you are 110% right in your valuations of your auto mechanic, teachers, pilots, electricians and everyone else who enables you to live in comfort and safety.
If you spoke to your mechanic as you speak of doctors, he’d throw you out of his garage. Insult your electrician and you’ll end up in the dark.
Insult me in my profession and you are out.
Each and every professional is truly worth what the market will pay. (not exactly socialist/communist thought)
Doctors do NOT operate in a free market. They operate in a world dictated by politician, lawyers, bureaucrats, do-gooders and whiners.
In YOUR highly respected profession, how would you like to live under the direction of varied people whose aim was to make it more and more difficult to properly do your job.
I “almost” think that something went wrong along the way and it has affected your thinking.
“Insult you”??? Asking you to get out of your freaking cartel and compete in a fair and free marketplace is insulting???
What the AMA has done is create a CARTEL. Plain and simple. Cartels are illegal in the USA, but yet the AMA endures.
If we had laws that only 200 people a year in Texas could become mechanics nevermind the fact how many people were actually qualified and willing then YES I would insult my mechanic because instead of charging me $65 an hour a free market mechanic charges, he would charge $650 an hour like the cartel doctors charge
Part of our health care issue is caused by the fake scarcity of doctors. You read that right. FAKE!!! The US has created a FAKE SHORTAGE of doctors. Anywhere in the world, where the free market system exists for training doctors, there is no shortage. Heck, even super qualified doctors from MODERN FIRST WORLD ENGLISH SPEAKING countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK and Ireland are NOT allowed to practice in the US without going through hoops and basically doing endless exams.
Fact is fact. Cartels are wrong and ONLY the consumer suffers. There is no inherent right to make $500K a year that doctors magically have. If in a free and fair market you make $500K GOOD FOR YOU. However, if you use a cartel to control the market then SCREW YOU