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>Puh-leez. People strain at gnats and swallow camels. I don't even know what "verbal class warfare" is. Paying for healthcare and making sure everybody can eat is one of the prices of a stable society IMHO. Sort of like paying for the fire brigade- how often does your house burn down after all? What a huge cost and inconvenience paying for incompetents? Don't think so. The only issue is whether a drunk dropping his cigarette and setting the place on fire is more deserving than the father of three who has a survivable heart attack but has no coverage.
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This heart attack survivor will be forever grateful to the EMT's, nurses and MD's who got me through that trauma.
However, grouping all health care workers together and making their care analogous to food or fire protection is a bit of a leap.
For every MD who saves lives there are dozens of toenail clippers, Botox dispensers, big pharma shills, breast augmenters, ear wax removers, "rehab" centers and phony psychiatrists who milk a broken "health care" system here.


Change, it seems, will have to come from outside the system.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler

My favorite takeaway-
“The CVSs and the Walgreens and the Walmarts of the world are going to be taking a lot of things that currently go to primary-care physicians,” he said. “The impact of that on our industry will be enormous.”

This woman - not an MD- is taking on a multi billion dollar segment of this bloated system and while there are some real doubts about how this will pan out, it makes theoretical sense and at least she's trying.