This cartoon seems a bit unfair to me. I didn’t know many doctors in the pocket of big pharma but it does happen. Actually, I’m more concerned about the big business of health care where hospitals are “profit centers” looking for the high revenue services and productive specialists; administrators making 7 figure incomes; the drug companies that are gouging; the suppliers that are jacking up prices; and the politicians who seem to think that these are free market practices while refusing to pass laws protecting the consumers. Our health care eats up 17.6% of our GDP – roughly twice that of other developed countries. The irony is that our life expectancy and other health measures are lower than these less expensive countries. The problem is price, price and price – at each step in our care.
