Doctors are certainly not exempt from temptation. If you tempt that little greedy devil in anyone's heart long enough and strong enough... Anyone can weaken, eventually. It's like a form of torture almost.
If the government's giving away free cheese (remember that?), even rich people who hate cheese will line up and fight each other for some to take back to their Cadillacs.
I've reached Medicare age and I'm bitterly amused at the way my doctor spreads the taxpayer wealth around to his colleagues. Any little ailment, from aching arches to snoring, gets a referral to an expensive specialist who then further enriches imaging and pharmaceutical companies.
I guess I should be grateful, and for the most part I am. But I think of many folks who desperately need care and don't have health insurance or a government program. There simply HAS to be a better way of making sure sick people get the care they need without bureaucratic waste, doctor and insurance company profiteering and government idiocy. I'm not smart enough to know what it is but the present system is inequitable and a health-delivery/economic disaster-in-the-making.
Doctors are certainly not exempt from temptation. If you tempt that little greedy devil in anyone's heart long enough and strong enough... Anyone can weaken, eventually. It's like a form of torture almost.
When more than 1 out of three bills are overbilled it's much more institutional than an occasional ethical slip.