>>>These guys better become employees in a hurry.
>>> Anyone who ran a business they way they do would have been broke years ago.
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>Happening as we speak.
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>FWIW, I can make an appointment online (with my self-employed GP) as can anybody else in the dreadful socialist healthcare system of Aotearoa. I'd have concerns if GPs were pushed to become corporate employees, but that's just me.

Because I couldn't get appointments with my MD, I've used walk-in MD's a few times with good results.
I was treated by nurse practitioners.
I don't know how they're compensated.



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>To be specific: society often has certain expectations of its doctors that are easily honored while the doctor is independent, but trickier if the doctor is legally beholden to (say) a corporate manager, whose bonus I might uncharitably suggest depends on their accounting bottom line. There is a cycle where doctors "fight the machine" in the interests of patients, get worn down (not least because doctors' main obligation is at the coal face which they usually prefer to politics and admin) so doctors shrug and "dellegate" (read "abdicate") responsibility for your care to eager others and their modern theories. Then doctors re-emerge as political forces at time of crisis, often after it's too late to shut the stable door. I've seen this pendulum more than once in the last 30 years. Exciting times ahead for the US.
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>If you ever did want to condense healthcare politics to a simple meme, try "beware the poor doctor." All roads eventually lead to that Rome.