the straw man arguments that you throw out show a lot about the problem with the many people's understanding of the current health care debate.
the issue isn't any "yammering" about "The only industrial nation without universal health care", that isn't the only point in the debate.
the issue is we spend more on health care than any other industrialized country on the planet, spend more of our gdp on health care than any other industrialized country on the planet, have health care costs increasing 2x the rate of other goods, have health insurance costs that have increased over 2x the rate of inflation over the last couple of years and 3x the rate of inflation over the last decade, and also have the rising cost of health care entitlements consuming more and more of the federal and state budgets.
and that is with a system that is not the best in the world at delivering care, and not even in the top 20 by most measurements.
while family doctors do not make a much a many other medical specialties, they do make more than others. it isn't the pay scale for a gp that is reducing those ranks, it's the allure of other specialties that attracts doctors to those areas.
if you or anyone else has a better way to reform the health care system than by congress, let's hear it. the system is not going to reform itself, there's no reason they would.
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