We’ve got a couple dozen doctors in our town and everyone of them are greedy little SOB’s. I don’t exaggerate. Somewhere along the line “care” has been taken out of “healthcare”.
You can’t be “greedy” in medicine...price is regulated...The government and the private insurance companies determine the cost of services...I don’t understand your point.
re: “We’ve got a couple dozen doctors in our town and everyone of them are greedy little SOB’s”
You’ve got a couple dozen doctors in your town, and you know every one of them, and have come to the conclusion that every one of them is a greedy little SOB?
Fascinating.
On a possibly unrelated topic, there’s a saying that if more than three people in one’s life are a**holes, then maybe the problem is one’s own attitude. Perhaps a perception that every single doctor in ones town is “a greedy little SOB” might form a corollary to that saying.
Doctor’s reimbursement has gone down 350% since 1990. Costs, including overhead of course, have gone up like costs for everything else. Who do you think is pocketing all that medical spending dollars that is a huge chunk of GNP?
No one smart enough and hard working enough to be a doctor would now want to become a doctor. Of course the field is now flooded by women. Medicine is become like teaching and social work - low paying burn out fields with long vacations. (see France during the summer heat of 2003 when 15,000 died). Just try to get any doctor including your own to see you on a weekend or holiday.
We may as well have socialized medicine.