So you figure medical people are better than you?
Perhaps they are. But not better than the rest of us.
I wouldn’t presume to speak for what RWGinger meant to say, but I would say that the perspective of a physician who is engaged in the actual day-to-day care of patients under the current system (and has taken the time to look at what the effects of the proposed system might be) is probably a more authoritative voice on the subject than someone whose exposure to health care is a yearly physical.
Just as the opinion of an architect or experienced contractor might be more valuable than that of a layperson in matters of proposed building code legislation, I could readily concede that a physician is going to have a viewpoint that a patient could not have.
A physician may be able to understand the viewpoint of a patient, because they have probably been one, but it is more difficult than a patient understanding the viewpoint of a physician, in my opinion.
That said, the viewpoints of the layperson, taxpayer, employer and patient are all important perspectives as well, and obviously will outnumber those of the physician or healthcare worker, so everyone must have a voice and be heard.
I wouldn’t have jumped on RWGinger so quickly, I don’t think she meant it that they were ‘better’...at least I didn’t interpret it that way.