>>Yes, and all the other ones find another line of work.
Or snap out of it.
Maybe we'll go back to the good old days when parsimony was a virtue. We old timers saved $ hand over fist when we knew there was no more to be had in a national system. Of course that only works if physicians are wealthy enough that there's no incentive to grasp. Who was it who said "beware the poor doctor?" ;-) It used to say in the introduction to one of those fat Textbooks of Medicine: "As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad."
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
