it would last one day

not to mention the door in leaves open for fraud/scams besides the obvious health risks for everyone

there is no such thing as free market in the US, why do you think lobbyists exist? the supply side with the deepest pockets can sway any notion of “free market ” to their favor.

and their is no untapped gains in the technology or pharm sectors

anyone is still free to develop and patent something

some have different cultures which effects include things like diet

particularly recent immigrants of which the US has a much larger amount of then any of these other countries. different epidemiology. its like practicing medicine in several countries in one day. I have nothing against immigration and love our country for its diversity but it requires a wider knowledge base to practice from, most physicians enjoy it but it requires more time and expenditures for them in school and afterwards

as well as culture competency which is a necessary requirement for physicians in order to elicit a proper history like asking about other remedies used outside of traditional western medicine. These can interact with some treatments

socioeconomic diversity is more broad here and effects every aspect of medicine

we are a very violent country and those obvious implications

we have barriers to routine healthcare that are caused not by lack of insurance because insurance sucks money out of the healthcare sector and uses it as profit for shareholders

malpractice drives up costs as well as the need to practice “protective medicine” when tests and orders are made not to diagnose but to prevent frivilous lawsuits

pharmaceutical companies develop treatments aimed at making them the largest and the most long term profit, the bottom line, not the most effective treatment and prevention strategy

physician salary adjust for hours worked, malpractice, tuition burden is the proper metric

look at who publishes these articles for the real source of costs and bias

physician salary has zero to do with increased healthcare costs and when adjusted for inflation has been declining while the same time tuition and malpractice has doubled or tripled

these statistics are deliberately misleading

do your own research before you lay blame to a group that does not deserve it and is being sleighted just as much as anyone because of our government and groups with real power to inflate costs-large companies, pharmaceutical and insurance as well as lawyers and the judicial system which most politicians hold alliances to

Want to change that? Offer cash kickbacks at the end of the year to workers who do not use insurance. Stay healthy, stay away from your doctor: get cash back.

It’s a fixed game now, between all levels of healthcare providers, as long as benefits are part of the guaranteed pay packet in most businesses — insurance companies fix prices and pass the cost on to workers. Why have workers not had salary increases for several decades: because salary increases go straight into insurance companies’ pockets in the form of ‘mandated”cost of living’ insurance coverage.

If workers don’t go to the doctor, they get their salary raise back. Watch how fast this changes everything!

For example a high population of asian are lactose intolerance, my doc never even considered that when checking me up… let just say that I’m blessed to never have huge issue with my health, but i’ve had plenty of sour experience when i go to the doctor for minor stuff.

Personally, I’m glad that the doctors make a decent salary- look at what happens with teachers- important jobs that get paid poorly and often result in poor quality of teaching. If doctors don’t make as much money, the smartest people in the country will go into other fields instead, and we’ll be left with less intelligent people in charge of our health! If we want high quality healthcare, we have to attract high quality talent with high salaries.

Prices for medical products and services in the US are now the highest in the world and have spiked to levels which are not sustainable in relation to GDP or the average paycheck. As a result, some US citizen have little or no access to care, while others are forced into bankruptcy and the competitiveness of the entire US economy suffers.

The economic evidence indisputable. The AMA is only part of the problem. The US medical care industry consists of several uncompetitive markets each with its own cartel.

The solution is simple. If Congress could end legislated restrictions sponsored by the cartels (by way of accreditation of medical care workers, hospitals etc) and move towards legislation to regulate a private medical care market (regulation of price transparency, standards for safety and access) then market forces would, over time, take care of the problem (especially in this sector with the huge and untapped potential for productively gains through technology).

At this stage, it might take a decade for supply to catch-up with demand, but pricing would become competitive.

Unfortunately, we have already seen how the cartels block every attempt at reform. If nothing changes in the coming decade, this monopoly will continue to be the largest single contributor for the economic downfall of the US in the mid-term.