Reply #5: To answer your first question simply -- [View All]

You don't need to be a Medical Provider to be a Medical Receiver, and anyone who RECEIVES medical care in this country knows there are problems with it that need to be fixed. (The Providers also know, of course, but are so busy doing their jobs -- saving lives! -- they are kind of involved in other things.)

Medical professionals are trained in healing -- they are not trained in finance. If they were, most probably wouldn't spend TWELVE (earning) years of their lives wracking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt so they could work 60+ hour weeks for 30 years (assuming they don't burn out). In my experience, most do it because they want to make a positive difference in people's lives.

But as for financing this mess, we need a better system, and those who are enmeshed in it currently are good for input, but if they could have fixed it, they already would have.

:shrug: