Stem sells wrote:
> The AMA has set the amount of medical doctors who can graduate each
> year at about 30,000 or so. This number has not increased in many
> years, although it needs to. This is why we have a big shortage of
> physicians in the USA. The corrupt AMA has prevented many ambitious
> and hard-working people from becoming medical doctors. The AMA
> realizes that by having more MDs, the fees/pricing of services would
> go down.
>
> Furthermore, to illustrate my point on the corruption of the AMA is
> that they provide patients with lawyers to sue doctors for
> malpractice. On the other hand, they sell malpractice insurance to
> the doctors! Talk about corruption! This is equivalent to Phillip
> Morris selling nicotine patches in addition to the cigarettes that
> they sell.
>
I couldn't agree more on your first point. Setting an
artificial barrier to entry and limiting supply to maintain
prices is typical of monopolies and cartels.
The second point reveal another problem with competition,
vertical integration within the practice of medical offices.
Do you think the DOJ will go after them? Does the DOJ even
have an anti-trust division anymore? I does, but it doesn't
do much for consumers (they seem to care more about the
investing class than the end users).-----
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character
building values of the privation of the poor.--John Kenneth
Galbraith
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