I would hope that legislation could protect patients from medical providers passing the costs on to them. It seems to me that the medical profession is financi

I would hope that legislation could protect patients from medical providers passing the costs on to them. It seems to me that the medical profession is financially imbalanced with respect to the rest of society. In the US, they are propped up by mandatory health insurance requirements and are all but guaranteed income, whether it’s from private insurance companies, taxpayer dollars (a la Medicaid/Medicare), or some poor unfortunate soul’s lifelong medical debt payments. As long as people are being born, medical problems will be a dime a dozen, and wealth earned by medical practitioners will scale with the size of the population.