Robert Reich: Medicare isn't the problem. It may be the solution.

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37. IDK what is so confusing...

I don't think that medicare pays Dr.'s too little, but they do. Especially compared to non-medicare payments.
Absolutely the for profit system of health care is problematic. That is why the other first world nations provide health care for it's citizens.
Their Dr.'s are paid handsomely. A government salary. Dr.'s in Great Britain for instance, make very good salaries, are some of the "top earners" and have a much better outcome than our (U.S.) health care system. They may not be getting wealthy like the banksters, but they are humanitarians being well compensated.
On "60 minutes" (I think) they showed the Dr.'s in G.B. They lived good lives, had great homes, vehicles, etc..and they were doing a job they loved. Not for the money but to help people.
In America we have insurance companies who must make huge profits and many Dr.'s that have gotten into their profession because of the money, not the people. Not all American Dr.'s are this way, thank God.
True blue green is the quest for for many capitalists but many are more interested in humanity.