"Jennifer Denny" <jhawbold@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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.
>>
>
> If this is true, this is bordering on fascist.
Hardly. It's an example of rent-seeking, which is extremely common in a
democracy (unfortunately).
> How are they able to get away with this?
Money, which ==> political power. Duh. (Of course, it's helped by the
(IMHO ridiculous) fact that in modern culture they're the closest thing we
have to high priests.)
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