Add to these the seemingly-daily debacles the freakonomics of health care in the new millennium: overhead costs spiraling at multiples of the inflation rate, as income dives inversely; ever larger numbers of legitimate treatments and services denied or criminally underpaid by government and the insurance industry cartel; the ludicrous notion that you can somehow provide the highest quality (or even barely adequate) care while being reimbursed substantially less than the costs to provide it; the horrifying freak show in Washington where corrupt and prevaricating politicians shamelessly conspire to destroy a noble profession and an extraordinary health care system to line their own pockets and acquire perpetual power and control.Read the whole thing.
. . . In truth, why would anyone choose to go into this profession today? Why would any sane man continue to practice medicine in this environment? Why, indeed, do I continue in this insanity?
I've heard the same repeatedly from my medical friends. In the midst of the ObamaCare debacle, it's all too easy to think only of ourselves as the outraged taxpayers whose wishes were utterly ignored. But spare a thought too for the many excellent, dedicated medical professionals who are getting screwed too, but in other dreadful ways.
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