> The end result is that the profession makes a lot more money than it does in other countries. I don't doubt that, but it's worth pointing out that they make

> The end result is that the profession makes a lot more money than it does in other countries. I don't doubt that, but it's worth pointing out that they make good money - as they should - in other places too. My wife has a family friend in Italy, who has a ski house up in the mountains a motorboat on the Po river delta and regularly goes on fancy vacations. And that's as a general practitioner. I think most of us want doctors to be well compensated for the service they perform and would be wary of a system where that's not the case.