To Cut Health-Care Costs, Pay Doctors Less
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Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- As Democrats and Republicans argueabout how to spread the pain of health-care spending cuts, onegroup has been curiously excluded from the discussion: doctors.There’s good reason to change that.
Everybody likes doctors. They deliver our babies, treat ourailments and often save our lives. In surveys of public trust,they rate higher than college teachers, police, even clergy, andvastly higher than journalists or politicians. Norman Rockwellpainted doctors as kind, patient and wise. You probably hopeyour child marries one.