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Medical cartel (i.e. doctors) have successfully convinced the public to blame insurance, pharma, government, and whoever else for high prices of healthcare. The
by avocado4 7y ago
Medical cartel (i.e. doctors) have successfully convinced the public to blame insurance, pharma, government, and whoever else for high prices of healthcare. The reality is that since the days of Flexner Report doctors are the supply side of healthcare by law, and a variety of medical associations and medical boards tightly control that supply on all levels of the system. Doctor is the one charging $1000 for a 10 minute consultation. There are enough leeches downstream too but the root issue is medical cartel.
https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/10/25/doctors-salaries-pay-disparities-000557 https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/10/25/doctors-sal...
- jorblumesea 7y agoThat's for specialists appointments and procedures. I agree that there's some of that going on. But the majority of your costs, if you look at your bill, is $100 aspirin, $50 band-aids, etc. That's not the Doctors. That's the hospital/insurer complex.
- avocado4 7y agoHospitals / insurance can do these things because of state legislature that's written or influences by doctors. Check who's sitting on your local Medical Board. Doctors "only" collect <20% of all medical expenses as salaries, but they enable the rest because they control (directly or indirectly) the top of the funnel through scope of practice, medical education, generics designation, and other laws. If you cut down the root of the problem by removing MDs from decision making on supply side legislation, the rest of the malignant vegetation (insurance, hospital admins, pharmas, PBMs, etc) will starve consequently.
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