Everyone in any industry, including the medical industry, do not expect to make a lot of money. Most people are good at their jobs and want to help others, as well as be successful in their careers. This country runs on millions of individuals trying to do their best to perform their jobs well and to be successful at it and get a ahead over time. Most that do, earn a good living doing it. There are always exceptions but they are just that, the exceptions, not the norm.
What industry do you work in where people don’t aspire to be good and/or successful and make good money? The reason medical care, housing, tuition, cars, etc. are so much more expensive today versus fifty years ago is due mainly to the inflation of our currency. The dollar becomes worth less and less over time and the number of dollars required to buy things keep getting larger over time.
And, I agree, government intervention in the private sector is responsible for most inflation and industries that don’t run efficiently with the government in their pockets. Overbearing government involvement and meddling in the private sector, is the cause of most ills in this country. But we have to deal the hand dealt to us until we can deal ourselves a better hand. You don’t avoid seeking medical care because you don’t like the system. Life is not that easy for most people.
Alot of money compared with the nuns of, say. eighty years ago, and even the small town GP of the same time. That’s because there is so more more money in the system. Sio maybe I should have said everyone thinks that lots of money is available. A good heart surgeon makes more in one year than my family doctor did in his whole career, and my doctor did well enough for a country boy, But money is a part of medicine just as it is in religion, where those “on top” can manage to live like dukes, however pure their hearts may remain. I also remember a talk I had with him, when I was about 14 and he was trying to persuade me to become a doctor, that no one worth his salt at any table if his only concern, or even his chief concern was about money. But there it is, lying there on the ground. like a heap of bananas in front of a bunch of chimps, and so often they can never get enough of the stuff.