I highly doubt that physicians are behind this. I know a lot of doctors, a few of whom are close friends of mine, and I've never met one who does shit because it costs more. They do things they think, in their best judgement at the time, will help patients the most. If there is a lobbying effort to kill this program it is most certainly by the hospitals and insurance providers, those who are the big money players. A doctor who makes $500,000 is rich by most people's definition, but (s)he isn't a mover in the Capitol. That is reserved for industrial type money. Hospitals are overrun by MBAs these days. Don't blame the doctors who mostly just want to help people.“This is about power and money,” Brenner says. “The largest group in the top one percent of income in America are physicians.”
I agree with you complete, one of the few bits of the article that bugged me. And it's not just the salary for hospital officials making up the price of health care. It's the equipment supplies. It's the complete lack of transparency in pricing. It's incredible legal costs associated with malpractice. It's an aging system completed resistant to change in technologies and new players.