From the above linked article:
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If medicine increasingly falls under government control, why should the best and the brightest of our youth give up 15 years of their life to go into medicine?
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A question that might be asked in any one of the dozens of other countries that provide coverage for ALL their people. How do they even maintain a decent doctor to patient ratio?
When I was working I was covered by dental insurance, never used it much. Then one day I chipped a tooth. I could NOT find a freakin' dentist in town who would do the work under my insurance. I actually had to threaten to SUE my employer to pay for it out of HIS pocket! He called a
personal dentist friend and cut some kind of sweet heart deal with the guy to get my tooth fixed. I never did find out who actually paid the bill...