Weiser says:
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Too many sick people, too few underpaid doctors. The math is
inevitable.
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I'm going try to get a handle on the way doctors are remunerated in the
USA. If I paint with too broad a brush and make significant errors,
I'll be happy to corrected by you, Scott.

Is it fair to say that a significant number of Americans carry private
medical insurance? I'm going to assume they do.

In these private medical insurance cases, I'll further assume that the
doctor gets paid by submitting a bill to the insurance company.

Now, if these insurance companies are anything at all like other
insurance companies, they're not particularly fond of handing over
money. I'm going to assume that they scrutinize all the bills that get
submitted. Further, if they act as good agents for their shareholders,
they'll deny any costs that appear out of the ordinary. To keep life
simple, they very likely have a fee schedule: $X for setting a broken
collar bone, $Y for removing tonsils, etc etc.

And exactly how is this different than Canada?

You suggest that in Canada, there are "too few underpaid doctors".
You're trying to make some sort of economic case, I guess. Hmmmm, thus
we'd have to assume "too MANY underpaid doctors" in the USA. Clearly,
in the USA, the free market ought to find an equilibrium as more people
go into a very lucrative profession. But this is apparently not the
case. There appears to be a doctor shortage in the USA as well.

Well!!!! Isn't that peculiar!

Of course it's not if one understands power. Bargaining power! It's the
oldest trick in the trade union guidebook: keep supply artificially
low. Hey, if it works for longshoremen, why not doctors?

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