Doctor friends insist that American medical care is the best in the world. It's also said that Americans are the freest people in the world. Neither statement provides total assurance. The entire American medical delivery system can do better, but it will take a sea change in the attitude of the average doc. The four questions below present a hard cynical critique of the status of the health care industry.
Payola becomes the way of life for every physician.
He is provided with free samples, junkets to resorts all over the world and other worldly pleasures beyond the imagination of the layman. Competitors are marginalized and often face criminal charges with some level of government acting as enforcer. Indeed, a friend and former medical editor remembers a doctors' strike in Israel that only ended when the undertakers picketed the medical association headquarters. Burt Blumert Archives Back to LewRockwell.