With demand for Medicare shooting ever upward, the government had to do something. If not, we would all soon be paying 85 percent of our income in payroll taxes just to cover Medicare. In a strange sort of way, government and HMO bureaucrats have saved us from this fate. They started to make the cost-cutting decisions that we, as individual patients in the medical marketplace, righteously refused to face. I don't care what.
Somebody has to do it.
Ironically, as legislation has sought to remove capitalism from the medical sector, medicine has become more concerned with money than ever before. Now such tales are commonplace. And look what they gave us in its place. Medicine is slowly evolving into a war of all against all. Doctors find patients increasingly demanding and greedy in their use of medical services they do not have to pay for.