Saturday, November 20, 2010

Why Doctors Don’t Want Free-Market Medicine

Why Doctors Don’t Want Free-Market Medicine
by Theodore Levy • The Freeman • July/August 2010
You may have heard that the AMA and “America’s physicians” favor universal health care. That’s true of the AMA, but that organization represents fewer than 20 percent of the nation’s doctors. And it’s true of many academic university physicians, but anecdotally it is obviously untrue of most doctors in private practice. Many of those docs desire to “get government out of medicine.”
But those physicians have a problem, of a sort that “getting government out of medicine” doesn’t solve। । । ।
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www.thefreemanonline.org, July/August 2010 • Volume: 60 • Issue: 6 • Print This Post • 15 comments